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Portraits of leaders are at the core of North Korea’s state-sponsored cult of personality that has buttressed the Kim family’s rule since the country’s foundation in 1948.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2024

His rollout of social welfare programs has buttressed his popularity, however.

From Reuters • Jun. 6, 2022

A 467-room hotel lease negotiated by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s staff has buttressed the effort in downtown.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2020

Indeed, British therapist and philosopher James Davies has buttressed that case formidably in a scholarly tome titled “The Importance of Suffering,” and follow-up bestseller, “Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2018

Mr. Silberling has buttressed his results with a consideration of various alternative possibilities which might give them a different interpretation.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.