buttressed

Example Sentences

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

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

Nor did the regime implement any major domestic political and economic reforms that could have buttressed its popular support.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

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 union’s demand for an independent arbitrator to handle discrimination and harassment complaints, for instance, was buttressed by similar provisions in place at UCLA, the University of Washington and New York University.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2023

As in the mica mine in North Carolina, long wooden planks and struts buttressed the walls and ceiling.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead