buoy up
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"We've basically just put money in to buoy up their business and there's no way we can now sell it."
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
I hate people who use others as props to buoy up their idiotic self-conceits.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2016
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother learning to swim when I could just buoy up and speed up with all these water aids.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2016
The grandly sizzling New Orleans funk band might be a little tuckered out after its Mardi Gras gig at Tipitina’s in the Crescent City, but Seattle fans will surely buoy up the boys.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2014
Consequently its weight will tend to buoy up or float the stone by trying to get back under it, and the stone when in water will weigh less than when in air.
From A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public by Frank Bertram Wade
"We've basically just put money in to buoy up their business and there's no way we can now sell it."
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
I hate people who use others as props to buoy up their idiotic self-conceits.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2016
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother learning to swim when I could just buoy up and speed up with all these water aids.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2016
The grandly sizzling New Orleans funk band might be a little tuckered out after its Mardi Gras gig at Tipitina’s in the Crescent City, but Seattle fans will surely buoy up the boys.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2014
There was something eloquent of singleness of heart and nobleness that seemed to buoy up this man with his broken honour.
From A Modern Mercenary by K. (Kate) Prichard
