prop up
Example Sentences
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Trade is helping to prop up growth, making access to overseas markets more important than ever.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
People like Rupar, who post candid videos and photos that reveal his human weakness, pierce through the increasingly fragile White House efforts to prop up the 80-year-old president as the epitome of strength and masculinity.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Isabel Wang explained how governments’ efforts to intervene and prop up currencies or hold down interest rates might have the opposite effect.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
The central bank’s reluctance to raise interest rates has pressured the Japanese yen, prompting a rare U.S.-Japan joint intervention to prop up the currency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Within two years, there was no Soviet Empire to hide behind anymore or to prop up autocratic regimes in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, or Latin America.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
