buttress
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"Ms. Zacharia has represented herself as a lawyer repeatedly to buttress her reputation and credibility," said the group's executive director, Michelle Kuppersmith.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
As a result, even if rising rates themselves are normally a headwind for gold, “this can buttress gold as a safe haven and lower-correlation asset,” Doshi said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
She landed on a curving ivory buttress and rode it like a skateboarder grinding a railing.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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They show O’Keeffe’s favored back view, and the beguilingly spare, almost biomorphic forms of its massive adobe buttresses, along with the subtle shadows, that make that completely understandable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
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
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
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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
Our rigorous expectations haven’t changed, and student performance has increased as we’ve buttressed resources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
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
These structures had also been reinforced with plywood, and debarked tree limbs buttressed every wall.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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Among other priorities, she favors government spending in pursuit of buttressing Japan’s manufacturing economy and food security, and investing in nuclear energy, artificial intelligence and other high-tech sectors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025
University officials point to their “long history” supporting them, buttressing state grants and private scholarships with such resources as university legal aid and fellowships that offer hands-on learning with grants of up to $7,200.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024
“We will carry on buttressing our economy and expanding its dynamic course.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 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 Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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