buttress

The country is moving to buttress its defense industry in the face of what Prime Minister Keir Starmer called a more dangerous and volatile world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Millions will be spent to regild the hulking Art Deco statues that buttress Arlington Memorial Bridge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Overseas Nepali workers bankroll their families and buttress the economy, making them a key constituency in elections next week -- but they cannot vote themselves.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

But even when things get shaky, Seyfried is there to buttress the film with a truly inhuman strength.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026

I ran down the ridge to the flat walkway near the buttress.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

In addition, Japan’s close ties with Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia, India and the U.S. form structural buttresses as Middle Eastern countries undergo their own pivot toward the Indo-Pacific region.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

The manuscript reveals a gothic, green castle, with decadent arches, spires and buttresses — the very castle on the stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025

That buttresses what Cohen will say: There’s no way that Trump signed a series of $35,000 checks to Cohen without knowing and intending them to be reimbursement for Cohen’s payment to Daniels.

From Slate ● May 8, 2024

Experts make exceptions for low-branching trees or those with large root buttresses.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

To build the flying buttresses it was first necessary to construct temporary wooden frames called centerings.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

The U.S. earnings growth is buttressed by “the AI-led tech investment supercycle” and, as has been widely lauded in recent months, its energy independence.

From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026

Its supply is believed to have been buttressed over the last year by advanced Akinci combat models.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

Strong performances from major franchises including an "Avatar" tie-in game and juggernaut "Assassin's Creed" buttressed struggling French games giant Ubisoft's third-quarter results, the company said Thursday.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

Nor did the regime implement any major domestic political and economic reforms that could have buttressed its popular support.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

My faith was buttressed by a book by Jacques Maritain rather than by the experience of worship at a Lenten service with classmates or serving at some old lady’s funeral.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Its form is that of the catenary curve, the most perfect shape for an arch, and the only one that requires no buttressing from the side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

It’s also the result of benevolent creative buttressing along the way, particularly from Early and Lyonne.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

Xi said China was open to buttressing cooperation within the U.N. and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation framework and safeguard the interests of developing countries.

From Reuters ● Oct. 20, 2023

He said the government is focusing on buttressing the country’s naval and air assets, without offering any details.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

We shall briefly glance at these three systems of buttressing; but the two latter being of small importance to our present purpose, may as well be dismissed first.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John