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SoftBank Group shares have gained 9.5% so far this year after nearly doubling in 2025, driven by hopes that stronger demand for artificial intelligence will buoy its investees such as Arm Holdings and OpenAI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

A first opening weekend win since 2013 will buoy Italy, who are missing several key players.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

The federal dollars will buoy ongoing city work, including repairing and replacing curb ramps, which the city is required to upgrade as part of a 2017 settlement with a local disability rights organization.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2023

Some investors, however, remain bullish on energy out of expectations that eventual declines in coronavirus case counts will buoy economic growth.

From Reuters • Sep. 10, 2021

Pride, Malice, Folly, against Dryden rose, In various shapes of Parsons, Critics, Beaus; But sense surviv'd, when merry jests were past; For rising merit will buoy up at last.

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander