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Example sentences for: boost

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For many it's the extra boost they need to continue their studies toward a productive career in the visual arts.
According to the NYT lead, Ken Starr's quest to find out who the President knew and when did he know her may have gotten a big boost from the grand jury appearance of Betty Currie, who testified that Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky were sometimes alone together in the White House.
In the case of the parasitoid wasps, the polar body-derived tissue has no paternal genome, so the clonality of sperm cannot boost its relatedness to anything.
Does the likelihood of such a "happiness boost" increase when you graduate from prosperous to out-of-sight rich?
In Singapore, the Straits Times led its front page Monday with a story anticipating that the euro would boost the value of Asian currencies against the dollar.