buttress

While throwing, the chimpanzees pant hoot — a loud, long-distance communicative signal — and sometimes repeatedly hit their hands and feet on the tree in a behavior called buttress drumming.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

To buttress their argument that an expert cannot be used as a back channel for “inadmissible hearsay,” they pointed to a nonexistent 2021 case brought by the government.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

It’s just the latest sign that the launch of a whole ecosystem of ETFs has done little to buttress bitcoin against the whims of mercurial investors.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

How to buttress the yen is another matter.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

She would buttress her argument with recommendations from Dr. Cuevas, which later, when he was asked point-blank, turned out to have been made up.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

In the very short-term, Tyler thinks inflation and payrolls data due this week may reinforce sentiment, especially if a jobs number like August’s buttresses the growth story.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

That the flying buttresses, with no vault restraining them, did not push the walls in was miraculous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

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

The lean was about 15 degrees and the building would have collapsed on its own, had it not been shored up with buttresses, the Lower Gornal local history group said.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2024

I stared up at the buttresses of rough rock, solitary in the huge solitude of the heights, and I did not believe the driver; but I suspended my disbelief.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

This VIX strategy, buttressed with gas price data, is intended to capture more fear data.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026

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

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 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

As investors enter the home stretch of 2025, the mindset is still skewed toward risk-on, buttressed by three unofficial “puts” that they believe establish a floor for risk-asset prices.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025

Windblown drifts buttressed the house—something moved on the second floor—a hand holding back the edge of a drape.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

The memorial also extols the soldiers killed in the conflict—a move analysts say is aimed at buttressing popular support for the deployment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Along the way, the 52-year-old skipper served as a source of optimism in the clubhouse, buttressing belief for a team trying to overcome a rash of starting pitching injuries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

Without an endowment, there’s no steady stream of cash buttressing the ups and downs.

From Seattle Times ● May 5, 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

His mouthpieces, Count von Hertling and Count Czernin, said it, by way of buttressing much verbal camouflage conveying that their peoples would like peace by gentler means—that is, by the Allies yielding.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various