bolsterer

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Noun
  • Mayer had some early success with her jab, but Cameron increasingly took control as the fight progressed and landed the cleaner punches before hurting Mayer with a right hand in the eighth round.
    Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • In the House the parliamentarian sits on the top tier of the dais, near the right hand of the presiding member; in the Senate the parliamentarian is seated at the rostrum below the presiding officer’s desk.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • My big moment in the spotlight has finally arrived but my costume and props are in a truck stuck in traffic.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The singer recently joked about the prop during a show where her grandmother, affectionately known as Nana, was in the audience.
    Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • But if the stay is lifted or overturned, USPS would require states to submit lists of mail ballot recipients and get approval for envelope and ballot designs with individualized barcodes.
    Peter Weber, TheWeek, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Afanasyev and Manarov began a 175-day stay as part of the outpost’s 11th expedition.
    Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Did Penelope, Helen of Troy, Athena, Calypso, and the rest of the Greek gals and goddesses deserve to be more epic than the attractive but flattened handmaidens even IMAX couldn’t enhance?
    Lisa Henricksson, Air Mail, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Her handmaiden points out that a sword contradicts her message of peace and suggests instead a chain.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
Noun
  • Sara, who is nearing her 18th birthday, walks with an arm crutch and wears braces.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Anyone who does a decent amount of public speaking winds up having a verbal crutch.
    Jonathan Jones, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
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“Bolsterer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bolsterer. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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