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prop

verb as in hold up or lean against

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Crews have built more than two dozen retaining walls to prop up the roadway over the last three decades, he said.

The two most populous countries have helped prop up Moscow's economy after its invasion of Ukraine left it cut off from most Western trade.

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Access to the unit was considered as the investigation established from staff that entry doors were sometimes propped open and "tailgating" would also occur.

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China and Russia are the biggest buyers of Russian crude oil, attracting criticism from the West that they are propping up the Russian economy which has been battered by the war effort.

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The image inspired an instant controversy when she unveiled it in June, with critics accusing her of propping up dangerous ideas about the submission of women in the age of the tradwife.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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