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

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

“Dictators, tyrants and kings build monumental architecture to buttress their own egos, which is called authoritarian monumentalism,” Gilmore writes.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025

I stepped up onto the ridge so he could flatten himself against the buttress.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover