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As a result, even if rising rates themselves are normally a headwind for gold, “this can buttress gold as a safe haven and lower-correlation asset,” Doshi said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

While throwing, the chimpanzees pant hoot — a loud, long-distance communicative signal — and sometimes repeatedly hit their hands and feet on the tree in a behavior called buttress drumming.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

To buttress their argument that an expert cannot be used as a back channel for “inadmissible hearsay,” they pointed to a nonexistent 2021 case brought by the government.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

The country is moving to buttress its defense industry in the face of what Prime Minister Keir Starmer called a more dangerous and volatile world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

There was what looked like a broad stone buttress there, running the full height of the wall, and at the top it continued into a stack of chimneys, with the moon shining brightly on them.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

They show O’Keeffe’s favored back view, and the beguilingly spare, almost biomorphic forms of its massive adobe buttresses, along with the subtle shadows, that make that completely understandable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

In the very short-term, Tyler thinks inflation and payrolls data due this week may reinforce sentiment, especially if a jobs number like August’s buttresses the growth story.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

The manuscript reveals a gothic, green castle, with decadent arches, spires and buttresses — the very castle on the stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025

The lean was about 15 degrees and the building would have collapsed on its own, had it not been shored up with buttresses, the Lower Gornal local history group said.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2024

The stone cutters and sculptors carved the stone gutters and down spouts that were to be installed in the buttresses.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

Their exchange has long buttressed a conventional wisdom that says the U.S. thinks in electoral cycles while China thinks in centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

At the same time, the school district has proceeded full force into its ongoing school reconstruction and modernization program, which voters buttressed in November 2024 with $9 billion in bonds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

The U.S. earnings growth is buttressed by “the AI-led tech investment supercycle” and, as has been widely lauded in recent months, its energy independence.

From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026

Its supply is believed to have been buttressed over the last year by advanced Akinci combat models.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

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

The second phase started Tuesday as crews began reinforcing the slope by buttressing it at the base and armoring it with rocks to hinder slope movement and erosion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

That discovery leads Mr. Lemann to ponder his family’s entanglement with slavery and its role in buttressing the Lemann fortune.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

Without an endowment, there’s no steady stream of cash buttressing the ups and downs.

From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2024

Xi said China was open to buttressing cooperation within the U.N. and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation framework and safeguard the interests of developing countries.

From Reuters ● Oct. 20, 2023

The prow narrows as well as slopes upward, and a buttressing piece left in it serves as a foot-rest for the steersman, who sits in the bow, instead of in the stern.

From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr