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as in anchors
something or someone to which one looks for support
the mother had always been the buttress of our family in trying times
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as in pillars
a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else
after the wall collapsed, the construction company agreed to rebuild it with a buttress
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as in supports
to hold up or serve as a foundation for
a brace buttressed the wall
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as in reinforces
to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)
a mass of circumstantial evidence buttresses the prosecutor's case
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Recent Examples of buttresses
James B. Steinberg, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
Verb
That very insight further buttresses the need for a grand strategy.
—James B. Steinberg, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buttresses
Noun
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After divorcing their previous partners and publicizing their relationship, the ex-GMA3 co-anchors hit many relationship milestones, including moving in together.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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The former co-anchors made the decision to marry about a month ago.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In a matter of hours, the pillars of an entire system of repression had not simply collapsed.—
Danny Makki,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Fasting, which is one of the five pillars of Islam, is a vital part of Ramadan, the holy period that marks the month when Muslims believe the angel Gabriel first revealed the Quran, Islam’s central religious text, to the Prophet Muhammad.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
13 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Research on interpersonal warmth—which, alongside competence, accounts for roughly 82% of how people evaluate others—supports the importance of explicit positive communication.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2025
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Creatine is a naturally occurring compound in the body that primarily supports muscles.—
Jenna Anderson,
Health,
17 Oct. 2025
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Unless overturned, the ruling leaves those orders in effect and reinforces the broad discretion presidents have over national energy policy.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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Their instant chemistry reinforces that direction.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Driving trucks is one of the unappreciated backbones of modern civilization.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
6 Sep. 2025
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Platform product management is rarely treated as a strategic, first-class discipline, resulting in fragmented backbones that fail to support enterprise-wide innovation.—
Gaurav Dixit,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Forty years ago, the Nintendo Entertainment System hit North American shores, singlehandedly resurrecting the video-game market after its infamous post-Atari crash in 1983.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
18 Oct. 2025
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Words aren’t enough to tell even the most compelling stories on screen, and for over three decades, Carter has been bringing them to life with wardrobes, transporting audiences everywhere from the blocks of Brooklyn to the shores of Wakanda.—
Leah Faye Cooper,
Vogue,
17 Oct. 2025
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If New Orleans sustains drives, though, the offense may try to go up-tempo to tire them out.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
11 Oct. 2025
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That labor sustains an inequitable tech economy in which a handful of companies, including Meta, Google and Amazon, rake in profit and enrich their shareholders.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
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The move bolsters its commitment to the region’s audiovisual industry where Cimarrón has already been active in Uruguay, Mexico and Argentina.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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Published Wednesday in , the discovery bolsters the case for follow-up missions to search for signs of life within Saturn’s enigmatic, ocean-bearing moon.—
Jacek Krywko,
Scientific American,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Buttresses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buttresses. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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