buttress

Example Sentences

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Its technologies not only pervade the modern world; they buttress the global economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 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

Atkins, to buttress his view, cited a passage from Warren Buffett’s final Thanksgiving letter to shareholders.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 2025

They lay now peering over the edge of a rocky hollow beneath the outstretched shadow of the northmost buttress of Ephel Dúath.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien