buttress
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Millions will be spent to regild the hulking Art Deco statues that buttress Arlington Memorial Bridge.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
To him, the ribbed vault and flying buttress were the epitome of rational construction.
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
Monday's collapses affected a buttress and part of the tower's base, then part of the stairwell and the roof, Rome's Directorate of Cultural Heritage said in a statement.
From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025
However, he was alert, and he snapped open the spy hole, at the same time opening the tap that allowed a flow of naphtha past the pilot light in the buttress outside.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing buttress
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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