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prop

verb as in hold up or lean against

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“I would argue to you that the economy is being propped up, almost artificially, by the artificial intelligence boom,” he said, according to a transcript.

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Across the region—from Cairo to Doha and from Ankara to Ramallah—the ideological scaffolding that has long propped up extremist movements is crumbling.

She mobilized her allies against the immigration crackdown and railed against the president’s deployment of the National Guard, arguing that the soldiers were “used as props.”

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For stock exchanges like Intercontinental Exchange, they make money providing financial data to institutional clients; that includes selling things like prop data, colocation fees and access to high-speed data ports.

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Fletcher said he had placed other items on the set over the years, but he has also helped himself to some of the props.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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