buttress
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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
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 stepped up onto the ridge so he could flatten himself against the buttress.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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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
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
The ruling this month further buttresses Washington’s Climate Commitment Act against future legal challenges, Carlyle said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
There was a soldier standing with his girl in the shadow of one of the stone buttresses ahead of us and we passed them.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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The alternative argument about the AI build-out is buttressed by the fact that capital expenditure isn’t immediately reflected in profit and losses.
From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026
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
Our rigorous expectations haven’t changed, and student performance has increased as we’ve buttressed resources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 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
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That discovery leads Mr. Lemann to ponder his family’s entanglement with slavery and its role in buttressing the Lemann fortune.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 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
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
She noted that the pits would have been visible from the palace throne room, indicating a public ceremony and buttressing the notion that the hands were spoils of war.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
But his secondary object was to experiment with the dangerous eddies and wind-holes that were likely to be met with above the profound ravines of Bald Face and its buttressing hills.
From Hoof and Claw by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
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