buttressed

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Strong performances from major franchises including an "Avatar" tie-in game and juggernaut "Assassin's Creed" buttressed struggling French games giant Ubisoft's third-quarter results, the company said Thursday.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 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

The study’s results, which are buttressed by those of an earlier observational study in Norway, are not widely known.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2024

After a while, without saying anything, I went to the side of the road and lay down on a pile of damp leaves between the tall, buttressed roots of a kapok tree.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver