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 • 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
There’s nothing like a Fed put to buttress markets, even if doubts exist this whole artificial-intelligence thing is going to work out swimmingly.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025
Monday's collapses affected a buttress and part of the tower's base, then part of the stairwell and the roof, Rome's Directorate of Cultural Heritage said in a statement.
From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025
There was what looked like a broad stone buttress there, running the full height of the wall, and at the top it continued into a stack of chimneys, with the moon shining brightly on them.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing buttress
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Built To Last: Architectural Parlance
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