buttress
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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
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
Then she tied them both securely to a massive buttress of one of the roots, as thick around as her own hips.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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