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buttressed

adjective as in reinforced

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They have been planning for this moment—a Republican governing trifecta buttressed by a compliant conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court—for decades.

From Slate

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.

From Salon

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

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.

“They should be going on a Holocaust tour, essentially a middle-class suburban American Holocaust tour. You can put these guys who are going through their own existential, interpersonal difficulties against the backdrop of real historical tragedy. And now you have a movie that can support these kinds of problems because it can be buttressed by something so much bigger.”

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

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