buttress
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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
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
“Dictators, tyrants and kings build monumental architecture to buttress their own egos, which is called authoritarian monumentalism,” Gilmore writes.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 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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