buttress
Example Sentences
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Its technologies not only pervade the modern world; they buttress the global economy.
If Blackstone and other lenders recover all or most of their financing, it would buttress their case that investors have overreacted to software cataclysm concerns.
From Barron's
Instead, I propped my elbow on the reading table and buttressed my fingertips against my forehead to obscure my face.
From Literature
This VIX strategy, buttressed with gas price data, is intended to capture more fear data.
From Barron's
That move showed discipline and helped buttress the case by Netflix management that Warner was nice to have, but not a need to have.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
