buttress

Example Sentences

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Carolyn Rogers, the Bank of Canada‘s No. 2 official, may either rebut or buttress traders’ expectations for at least three interest-rate increases in 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Overseas Nepali workers bankroll their families and buttress the economy, making them a key constituency in elections next week -- but they cannot vote themselves.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

But even when things get shaky, Seyfried is there to buttress the film with a truly inhuman strength.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

Basically, since getting sworn in to the role, Patel has used a Gulfstream jet owned by the agency to buttress his vacation time.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

My red shoes are off, my legs tucked up underneath me on the chair, surrounded by a buttress of red skirt, true, but tucked nonetheless, as at a campfire, of earlier and more picnic days.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood