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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.

Kamala Harris immediately leveraged a high-dominance leadership strategy, buttressed by positive messaging, to launch a sustained offensive that was immediately reflected in public opinion polls.

The study’s results, which are buttressed by those of an earlier observational study in Norway, are not widely known.

But the moderators’ velvet-gloved handling of fact-checking, couched as clarification, was not enough to buttress the event’s anemic utility.

Among other assets, she inherited Biden’s well-honed reelection team, buttressed by several Obama campaign veterans, which spared her the drama and trauma that racked Harris’ last faction-ridden bid for the White House.