buttress

Example Sentences

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There’s nothing like a Fed put to buttress markets, even if doubts exist this whole artificial-intelligence thing is going to work out swimmingly.

From MarketWatch

The tools can help stop crime and terror attacks but can also become an undemocratic buttress of political power.

From New York Times

But they could be repurposed to confront and dismantle the very things they buttressed more than a century ago.

From Washington Post

Through the centuries, the cathedral’s windows were widened and the flying buttresses reconstructed.

From Washington Post

But a number of virus experts not involved with the latest analysis said that what was known about the swabs gathered in the market buttressed the case that animals sold there had sparked the pandemic.

From New York Times