bolstered up
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“We really bolstered up our state election law expertise,” said Catherine Kim, executive vice president for editorial at NBC News.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2024
Another fan bolstered up those who had fallen, and pushed the sunburned man back.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2013
Last week, in the Lancet, Dr. Phyllis Toohey Kerridge of London University bolstered up this theory by publishing results of her hearing tests on 1,000 English school children.
From Time Magazine Archive
The White House cautiously bolstered up this belief by hints that the recovery of Business and Industry after the stockmarket crash was being retarded by the tariff.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was bolstered up in his bed, but the effort brought on a severe fit of coughing, and he was obliged to lie down again.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
