buttress
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Or, the elite artificial-intelligence names helping to buttress the S&P 500 against further losses could start to struggle themselves.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 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
How to buttress the yen is another matter.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
A hundred yards away was a concrete buttress dam, which supplied hydroelectric power to Port-au-Prince.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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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
They are integral parts of a dynamic structural system—their weight of stone pushing the walls outward while the flying buttresses outside push them inward—the two forces exactly matching, like a perfectly balanced seesaw.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
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
At the last minute though, those faithful buttresses on the south side were further strengthened.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2024
When work resumed, the flying buttresses of the choir were completed and the centering was readied for the first stones of the vault.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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The alternative argument about the AI build-out is buttressed by the fact that capital expenditure isn’t immediately reflected in profit and losses.
From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026
This VIX strategy, buttressed with gas price data, is intended to capture more fear data.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
Its supply is believed to have been buttressed over the last year by advanced Akinci combat models.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
Our rigorous expectations haven’t changed, and student performance has increased as we’ve buttressed resources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
The walls and floors are buttressed like a basement, and the entire space is much larger than the small building we entered.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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Its form is that of the catenary curve, the most perfect shape for an arch, and the only one that requires no buttressing from the side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Along the way, the 52-year-old skipper served as a source of optimism in the clubhouse, buttressing belief for a team trying to overcome a rash of starting pitching injuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
Without an endowment, there’s no steady stream of cash buttressing the ups and downs.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2024
This is moral vanity, Edelman admits: a professional charmer’s eagerness to flatter other people’s self-regard as a way of buttressing his own.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
She did not tell herself that girls had done this thing before, maiden modesty notwithstanding, and had found no cause to repent their confidence; for her determination needed no buttressing.
From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman
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