buttress

Example Sentences

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Instead, I propped my elbow on the reading table and buttressed my fingertips against my forehead to obscure my face.

From Literature

This VIX strategy, buttressed with gas price data, is intended to capture more fear data.

From Barron's

That move showed discipline and helped buttress the case by Netflix management that Warner was nice to have, but not a need to have.

From The Wall Street Journal

Its supply is believed to have been buttressed over the last year by advanced Akinci combat models.

From BBC

Overseas Nepali workers bankroll their families and buttress the economy, making them a key constituency in elections next week -- but they cannot vote themselves.

From Barron's