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Example sentences for: buttress

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The two authors of the New Yorker article, Jane Mayer and Alexandra Robbins, buttress their insult to the governor's privacy with a backhanded compliment.
I risk boring you with my autobiography to buttress my contention that The Deep End of the Ocean is fundamentally bogus.
Where Gaddis does look at the breach between Tito and Stalin, it is to buttress his case that as democrats, the Americans were far more relaxed about managing alliance politics than Stalin was.
During the Cold War, liberals shunned military intervention--even humanitarian military intervention--because such adventurism could provoke conflict with the Soviets and tended to buttress thuggish right-wingers.
Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson also quote Scripture during the segment to buttress their arguments, apparently from memory.