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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flying buttresses
pedestals
Noun
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The group was later able to recover the statue — with the figures ripped from their pedestals and broken into pieces — and set about trying to re-erect it.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
3 Oct. 2025 -
Some are unfinished, their massive pedestals hinting at what would’ve been.—
Barry Neild,
CNN Money,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Flying buttresses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flying%20buttresses. Accessed 10 Dec. 2025.
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