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At ABC, World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings and executive producer Paul Friedman were more leery of the unbuttressed charges and reluctant to credit another news organization on a topic they too had been pursuing.

From Time Magazine Archive

The evidence seems to be that he was, but what is of interest is the way Graham was questioned�the technique of the unbuttressed accusation disguised as a question.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the second place, infidelity, on the principle of Bacon, is a weak, tottering thing, unbuttressed by that support which gives to poor human nature half its strength and all its dignity.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John

Walls are usually thick and stand unbuttressed, and rarely have such slopes and diminutions of apparent thickness towards their upper part as are not uncommon in England.

From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)