buttress
noun
any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts, especially a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall.
will buttress
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future tenseof buttress.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Prosecutors aim to blunt those attacks by acknowledging Cohen’s past crimes to jurors and by relying on other witnesses whose accounts, they hope, will buttress his testimony.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024
The aid will buttress the $1 billion in loan guarantees that U.S.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2014
It is all about building a sustainable, long-term economic model which will buttress us from the effects of any sudden downturns.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2013
The frames will buttress a series of works: heavily manipulated photo portaits of Kamahele and Django posed as feral children.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2010
These aircraft stations will buttress the reconnaissance and bombing powers of the Pacific Fleet on the long reach south from Pearl Harbor to the Navy's long-neglected station on Samoa.
From Time Magazine Archive
