cement

This is still a media conglomerate property invested in cementing its heroes as incarnations of the American story and using its TV titles as bridges.

"There's a subset of people, like 1% of the population, who are psychopaths, who are not worried about the vulnerable, who are worried first and foremost about cementing power and gaining status."

The shouting-match in the Oval Office will have cemented that view.

In the first, Hackman’s local sheriff, Little Bill Daggett, already cemented in our brains as vicious, reveals himself to be a shrewd mocker of the written word as well.

D’Aguilar thinks maybe the large rocks and cement surrounding a part of her property helped beat back the fire, but who knows.