buttress
Example Sentences
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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
Among them are working drawings that prescribe the profile of every block of stone, each keyed to its exact place in the building, whether gable, tracery or buttress.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
But even when things get shaky, Seyfried is there to buttress the film with a truly inhuman strength.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 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
She would buttress her argument with recommendations from Dr. Cuevas, which later, when he was asked point-blank, turned out to have been made up.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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