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support

[suh-pawrt] / səˈpɔrt /










Usage

What are other ways to say support? To support is to hold up or add strength to, literally or figuratively: The columns support the roof. To maintain is to support so as to preserve intact: to maintain an attitude of defiance. To sustain, a rather elevated word, suggests completeness and adequacy in supporting: The court sustained his claim. Uphold applies especially to supporting or backing another, as in a statement, opinion, or belief: to uphold the rights of a minority.

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Chip stocks fell on Thursday, as OpenAI serves as an important indicator of ongoing demand for AI and therefore of the spending on infrastructure that’s required to support the development and deployment of the technology.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

The improved ratings could support Humana’s efforts to strengthen its Medicare Advantage margins, though the financial impact will depend on enrollment in qualifying contracts and applicable payment calculations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

But none are being produced affordably at scale, and the alternatives often lack the nutrients that support the growth of farmed fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

That changed after 28 June, when educationist and scientist Sonam Wangchuk began a hunger strike in CJP's support and Neha and a few others from Aisa also joined him.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

My new role seems to be moral support.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

"There is momentum for climate litigation in the courts," Dennis van Berkel of the Climate Litigation Network, which supports legal action against states and corporations, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Currently, according to this website, such a ladder supports an inflation-adjusted payout rate of 5.2% per year until 2056.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

For week six, he takes on Starsailor frontman James Walsh, who supports Liverpool.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The company said it supports legislation focused on addressing pilot mental health, which recently advanced in Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

On the second, she constructed the cake, using cardboard bases and straws for supports, and made the basic icing to cover the layers.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

In rare interviews, supported by documentary evidence and published anonymously, workers also described:

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Frontline can rally 38%, supported in part by growing supply from non–Middle East sources.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

“The S&P 500 rose to a fresh record high, supported by optimism around AI-related spending,” CBA’s Samara Hammoud says in a research report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The centre said they supported 296 women, 88 men and 231 children in the last financial year and feel "there is a huge gap between rural and urban domestic abuse".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

She didn’t want to rain on Penelope’s parade, but she also didn’t want the girl to be disappointed when no one supported her grand scheme.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

The super PAC last month announced four House Democrats and four Republican Senate candidates that it’s supporting in the Nov. 3 general election.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

They said she wouldn’t attempt to flee because her husband is in New York, and that she “is intent on supporting her husband with her constant presence.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

A pickup in Iranian attacks on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz kept Brent oil futures elevated,” supporting the dollar, CBA’s Carol Kong says in a research report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Back in 2008, she won a supporting actress Emmy for an airport show called “Red Eye.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Ere long, I became aware that some one was handling me; lifting me up and supporting me in a sitting posture, and that more tenderly than I had ever been raised or upheld before.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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