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
Thus, as at Wepener, it became a game of patience for the garrison, dissimilar only in this, that at Elands River there was no promise of support to buoy up the garrison with hope.
From A Source Book of Australian History by Gwendolen H. Swinburne
Rare earth permanent magnet material is subject to a 13% VAT discount on export from the country, and provincial governments give support on energy costs, for example, which also helps buoy up magnet-making facilities.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024
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
His hopeful spirits had helped to buoy up her expectations and assuage the sorrows of the present.
From Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City by Edwin Hodder
