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propping

verb as in hold up or lean against

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But despite these hints of a potential shift in policy, Beijing keeps propping up Pyongyang.

As much as advancing a political cause, SarahPAC seems to be a lifestyle play, propping up an expensive ideological entourage.

Let's phase out the government's role in propping up big sugar, and while we're at it, perhaps ethanol as well?

Bottle propping and speed-feeding gruel causes them to choke and aspirate their food—sometimes causing pneumonia and death.

Nope, he has to be seen landing his chopper on the South Lawn, propping his leather loafers on his mahogany desk in the Oval.

Flinthead led out a horse, mounted and rode down a lane, propping the gates open as he went.

Gilliatt worked the whole day long on the wreck, clearing away, propping, arranging.

One does not gain chieftainship of any kind in the West without propping his ascendency with acts of ruthless decision.

In this also Rhode Island bore her part, propping as best she might her tottering treasury and using impressment for raising men.

She gave the impression of a tall creature of extreme grace as she sat propping her back against her silvered chair.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to propping, such as: brace, bolster, set, uphold, buttress, and strengthen.

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

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