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buttress

[buh-tris] / ˈbʌ trɪs /




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Or, the elite artificial-intelligence names helping to buttress the S&P 500 against further losses could start to struggle themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Pant hooting and buttress drumming are both part of the male chimpanzee display, suggesting that accumulative stone throwing might represent a modification of this common behavior.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

To buttress their argument that an expert cannot be used as a back channel for “inadmissible hearsay,” they pointed to a nonexistent 2021 case brought by the government.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

How to buttress the yen is another matter.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

Then they were hoisted into place and fastened to the pier at one end and to the buttress at the other.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

In the very short-term, Tyler thinks inflation and payrolls data due this week may reinforce sentiment, especially if a jobs number like August’s buttresses the growth story.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

That the flying buttresses, with no vault restraining them, did not push the walls in was miraculous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

The manuscript reveals a gothic, green castle, with decadent arches, spires and buttresses — the very castle on the stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025

The lean was about 15 degrees and the building would have collapsed on its own, had it not been shored up with buttresses, the Lower Gornal local history group said.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2024

There was a soldier standing with his girl in the shadow of one of the stone buttresses ahead of us and we passed them.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

This VIX strategy, buttressed with gas price data, is intended to capture more fear data.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026

Its supply is believed to have been buttressed over the last year by advanced Akinci combat models.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

Our rigorous expectations haven’t changed, and student performance has increased as we’ve buttressed resources.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

As investors enter the home stretch of 2025, the mindset is still skewed toward risk-on, buttressed by three unofficial “puts” that they believe establish a floor for risk-asset prices.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025

Instead, I propped my elbow on the reading table and buttressed my fingertips against my forehead to obscure my face.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Among other priorities, she favors government spending in pursuit of buttressing Japan’s manufacturing economy and food security, and investing in nuclear energy, artificial intelligence and other high-tech sectors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025

It’s also the result of benevolent creative buttressing along the way, particularly from Early and Lyonne.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

Xi said China was open to buttressing cooperation within the U.N. and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation framework and safeguard the interests of developing countries.

From Reuters ● Oct. 20, 2023

He said the government is focusing on buttressing the country’s naval and air assets, without offering any details.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

The outer thickness has arched recesses at intervals along its length, corresponding to openings in the inner thickness, and thus while buttressing the latter also enlarges slightly the area of the church.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen




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