bolstered up
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“We really bolstered up our state election law expertise,” said Catherine Kim, executive vice president for editorial at NBC News.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2024
Another fan bolstered up those who had fallen, and pushed the sunburned man back.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2013
Last week, in the Lancet, Dr. Phyllis Toohey Kerridge of London University bolstered up this theory by publishing results of her hearing tests on 1,000 English school children.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the circumstantial evidence in Pushkin's favor was further bolstered up by a scholarly, 484-page biography, by a critical manifesto by four Marxist writers,� by nationwide commemoration exercises in U. S. colleges.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meagre salaries were bolstered up by fees and perquisites, many of them of an outrageous character.
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert
