buttress
Example Sentences
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But even when things get shaky, Seyfried is there to buttress the film with a truly inhuman strength.
From Salon
F-15Es have long rotated through Jordan and sending additional jets would buttress U.S. air capabilities in several ways.
From vocalisations to food intake, social interactions to rhythmic beating on trees, known as buttress drumming, they note down everything.
From Barron's
Nor did the regime implement any major domestic political and economic reforms that could have buttressed its popular support.
In addition, Japan’s close ties with Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia, India and the U.S. form structural buttresses as Middle Eastern countries undergo their own pivot toward the Indo-Pacific region.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
