buttress
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Among them are working drawings that prescribe the profile of every block of stone, each keyed to its exact place in the building, whether gable, tracery or buttress.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 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
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
She would buttress her argument with recommendations from Dr. Cuevas, which later, when he was asked point-blank, turned out to have been made up.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Vocabulary lists containing buttress
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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