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buoyed

verb as in make light, encourage

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Australia, buoyed and making gainline metres, were back within a point after 35 minutes as lively replacement scrum-half Tate McDermott swerved outside George Martin and fed the supporting Wilson for their second try.

From BBC

After a few still-entertaining but slightly off seasons, host Matt Lucas was replaced by Alison Hammond, whose cheerful ebullience has buoyed the vibes in the tent.

The evening began with two new songs, including the spare, meditative title track, before launching into “Dark Side of the Moon” classics and “Fat Old Sun” from 1970’s “Atom Heart Mother, “ a timeless track buoyed by Gilmour’s steel guitar.

For the first time this week, they’ll also arrive at the ballpark buoyed by a sudden burst of momentum.

They’ve perhaps been buoyed by misleading media coverage of Trump’s empty pledges not to sign an abortion ban—reports that gloss over what exactly Trump considers to be a “ban” versus a “national minimum standard.”

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