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buttress

verb as in support, bolster

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The claims were buttressed at trial by the introduction into evidence of a previously unpublished audit of cleanup operations for several large fires in 2018.

At a time when we should be buttressing hospice services, our government is threatening to starve them.

From Salon

“You’ve got to be an activist, you’ve got to be proactive and you have to defend your strengths and buttress your weaknesses in everything you do,” said Kachuck, a married father of three adult children.

But among his supporters, his ongoing legal troubles have only further buttressed the image of a wronged saviour.

From BBC

The city will install reinforced concrete barriers and sandbags to buttress affected areas and stem the flow of toxins, according to the mayor’s office.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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