buttress

Pant hooting and buttress drumming are both part of the male chimpanzee display, suggesting that accumulative stone throwing might represent a modification of this common behavior.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

To buttress their argument that an expert cannot be used as a back channel for “inadmissible hearsay,” they pointed to a nonexistent 2021 case brought by the government.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

It’s just the latest sign that the launch of a whole ecosystem of ETFs has done little to buttress bitcoin against the whims of mercurial investors.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Carolyn Rogers, the Bank of Canada‘s No. 2 official, may either rebut or buttress traders’ expectations for at least three interest-rate increases in 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

There was what looked like a broad stone buttress there, running the full height of the wall, and at the top it continued into a stack of chimneys, with the moon shining brightly on them.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

That the flying buttresses, with no vault restraining them, did not push the walls in was miraculous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

The manuscript reveals a gothic, green castle, with decadent arches, spires and buttresses — the very castle on the stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025

That buttresses what Cohen will say: There’s no way that Trump signed a series of $35,000 checks to Cohen without knowing and intending them to be reimbursement for Cohen’s payment to Daniels.

From Slate ● May 8, 2024

Experts make exceptions for low-branching trees or those with large root buttresses.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

The vuvv compound rises out of suburbia, a collection of towers, buttresses, and bulbs of green metal.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

The U.S. earnings growth is buttressed by “the AI-led tech investment supercycle” and, as has been widely lauded in recent months, its energy independence.

From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026

This VIX strategy, buttressed with gas price data, is intended to capture more fear data.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026

Its supply is believed to have been buttressed over the last year by advanced Akinci combat models.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

Nor did the regime implement any major domestic political and economic reforms that could have buttressed its popular support.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

Every move she made, I realize now, was buttressed by the quiet confidence that she’d raised us to be adults.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Among other priorities, she favors government spending in pursuit of buttressing Japan’s manufacturing economy and food security, and investing in nuclear energy, artificial intelligence and other high-tech sectors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025

University officials point to their “long history” supporting them, buttressing state grants and private scholarships with such resources as university legal aid and fellowships that offer hands-on learning with grants of up to $7,200.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024

Without an endowment, there’s no steady stream of cash buttressing the ups and downs.

From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2024

It signaled to the world that this new virus posed a threat outside of China, where it emerged, and gave countries critical buttressing to impose potentially unpopular or disruptive public health measures.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

And this miracle could not be explained away as a coincidence, but was an old-fashioned miracle that required no psychical buttressing, a hard and fast miracle able to withstand any criticism.

From The Altar Steps by Compton MacKenzie