buttress
Example Sentences
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To him, the ribbed vault and flying buttress were the epitome of rational construction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
But even when things get shaky, Seyfried is there to buttress the film with a truly inhuman strength.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026
From vocalisations to food intake, social interactions to rhythmic beating on trees, known as buttress drumming, they note down everything.
From Barron's • Jan. 15, 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
My red shoes are off, my legs tucked up underneath me on the chair, surrounded by a buttress of red skirt, true, but tucked nonetheless, as at a campfire, of earlier and more picnic days.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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