buttress

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If Blackstone and other lenders recover all or most of their financing, it would buttress their case that investors have overreacted to software cataclysm concerns.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

F-15Es have long rotated through Jordan and sending additional jets would buttress U.S. air capabilities in several ways.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

Basically, since getting sworn in to the role, Patel has used a Gulfstream jet owned by the agency to buttress his vacation time.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

There’s nothing like a Fed put to buttress markets, even if doubts exist this whole artificial-intelligence thing is going to work out swimmingly.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025

A hundred yards away was a concrete buttress dam, which supplied hydroelectric power to Port-au-Prince.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French