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buttress

noun as in brace, support

verb as in support, bolster

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The city will install reinforced concrete barriers and sandbags to buttress affected areas and stem the flow of toxins, according to the mayor’s office.

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.

From Salon

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.

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

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