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buttress

verb as in support, bolster

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Such prohibitions exist in dozens of states, but many doctors, nurses and policymakers want to toughen them up as a buttress against private equity’s influence in the sector.

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Among other priorities, she favors government spending in pursuit of buttressing Japan’s manufacturing economy and food security, and investing in nuclear energy, artificial intelligence and other high-tech sectors.

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The claims were buttressed at trial by the introduction into evidence of a previously unpublished audit of cleanup operations for several large fires in 2018.

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At a time when we should be buttressing hospice services, our government is threatening to starve them.

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“You’ve got to be an activist, you’ve got to be proactive and you have to defend your strengths and buttress your weaknesses in everything you do,” said Kachuck, a married father of three adult children.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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