buttress
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How to buttress the yen is another matter.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
Among them are working drawings that prescribe the profile of every block of stone, each keyed to its exact place in the building, whether gable, tracery or buttress.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
Basically, since getting sworn in to the role, Patel has used a Gulfstream jet owned by the agency to buttress his vacation time.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025
Atkins, to buttress his view, cited a passage from Warren Buffett’s final Thanksgiving letter to shareholders.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 2025
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
Vocabulary lists containing buttress
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Built To Last: Architectural Parlance
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