buttress
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Outside, he posed for selfies and held a 6-foot-long spurtle carved with a chain saw by local artist Alice Buttress and painted gold.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025
The Whitney climbers set out from the base of the mountain at 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 21 with plans to summit via the East Buttress route, which includes 11 pitches, according to the incident report.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024
The climber’s partner told rangers early Saturday morning the fall occurred Friday around 11 p.m. while they were on a route known as the West Buttress to Peters Glacier, the agency said.
From Seattle Times • May 20, 2023
Thursday's meeting with Johnson and Buttress is likely to include representatives from Sainsbury's, Vodafone, Amazon and Centrica, the government said.
From Reuters • Jul. 20, 2022
Buttress, but′res, n. a projecting support built on to the outside of a wall: any support or prop.—v.t. to prop or support, as by a buttress.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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