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prop

verb as in hold up or lean against

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We have propped up puppets and despots and taken down democratically elected governments with the regularity of the seasons.

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Basketball, a game of constant motion, has many such prop bets to offer—or manipulate.

That comes on top of years of runaway inflation after the pandemic, when the federal government flooded the country with money to prop up the economy.

Following their plots was a lot less interesting than trying to guess whether a real actor, prop or location was used in a certain scene.

Economists warn the largesse might be a "financial Vietnam" for the United States, requiring Washington to pump in good money after bad to prop up Milei and the peso.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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