prop
Example Sentences
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As with much of the asinine ponderings coming from the Silicon Valley billionaire class, there’s a pseudo-intellectual rationale to prop up this nonsense.
From Salon
While AI is propping up global trade and growth, it is doing so unevenly and the pain from tariffs is likely to grow.
Treasury bought the peso to prop it up and later opened a $20 billion swap line with Buenos Aires.
A prop axe was brought in as crew members set the scene for a horror movie being filmed in Budapest's former psychiatric institute, one of numerous Hollywood productions under way in the Hungarian capital.
From Barron's
The early South African power told with an scrum penalty conceded by Wales prop Keiron Assiratti, who endured a torrid afternoon.
From BBC
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