buttress
Example Sentences
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Overseas Nepali workers bankroll their families and buttress the economy, making them a key constituency in elections next week -- but they cannot vote themselves.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 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
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
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
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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