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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