buttress
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F-15Es have long rotated through Jordan and sending additional jets would buttress U.S. air capabilities in several ways.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
From vocalisations to food intake, social interactions to rhythmic beating on trees, known as buttress drumming, they note down everything.
From Barron's • Jan. 15, 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
They lay now peering over the edge of a rocky hollow beneath the outstretched shadow of the northmost buttress of Ephel Dúath.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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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