bolstered up
Example Sentences
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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 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
The White House cautiously bolstered up this belief by hints that the recovery of Business and Industry after the stockmarket crash was being retarded by the tariff.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems that a piece cannot survive on its merits as a play, but must, perforce, be bolstered up by some wretched device called an ‘effect.’
From Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star by Standish, Burt L.
