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Noun
Satellites, weather stations and buoys collect data—like temperature, humidity and other variables—that is fed into giant supercomputers. Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024 Seeking to counter these concerns and buoy Argentina’s markets, Milei’s government passed a tax amnesty law for foreign holdings and implemented a new foreign investment regime that favored extractive industries, such as mining. María Victoria Murillo, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2024
Verb
Manufacturers in the Middle East were buoyed by the war in Ukraine and by the first months of the Israeli offensive in Gaza after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack — and saw on average an 18 percent lift in sales. Afp, Fortune Europe, 2 Dec. 2024 Musk’s fortunes have been buoyed by EV-maker Tesla’s growth throughout the year—up more than 37% from the start of 2024 at the time of writing. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for buoy 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buoy
Noun
  • Relying on traditional overbought/indicators in attempting to call the end of this run just hasn’t worked.
    Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Certifications and audits, such as SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 compliance, are vital indicators of a custody provider’s commitment to regulatory compliance and operational integrity.
    Lior Lamesh, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • But the best story of all was Maryanne, and watching this delightful goofball evolve into a cutthroat champion was truly thrilling, lifting Survivor 42 into the mid-twenties.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The woman was lifted into the helicopter and transported to Bay Area Hospital in North Bend where she was then transferred to emergency medical services.
    David Chiu, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Some individuals of the species might have been swimming there since colonial times — and researchers are just beginning to unravel how.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Fish swimming in a melting river of agar and red bean jellies.
    Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • As of September 2023, pilots whose drones require an FAA registration number are also required to broadcast Remote ID, which refers to the ability of a drone in flight to provide identification and location information that can be received by other parties through a signal.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Law enforcement officials would need a warrant to interfere with the radio signals of a drone, according to Michelle L.D. Hanlon, executive director of the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Companies have also been steeling themselves for a busier-than-usual holiday season.
    Erika Tulfo, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024
  • In the Cold War years, as the US sought to limit the spread of communism abroad, political leaders promoted the concept of domestic containment at home to steel American society against the purportedly undermining influences of socialism.
    Elizabeth Friend, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • For their part, Trump campaign officials have floated cuts in federal spending as a way to eliminate the nation's growing deficit.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Mescal has been floated as a contender to play Paul McCartney, and his Gladiator II director, Ridley Scott, seemed to confirm that in a Q&A this week.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The barrier repair skin-care genre is showing no signs of slowing down.
    Victoria Moorhouse, Allure, 12 Dec. 2024
  • However, there are signs the market is recovering after being battered by inflation and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes.
    Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Hemmed in by soldiers, a crowd has assembled in the courtyard of a grand building festooned with evil-looking red banners to cheer the arrival of Prescott, now an adult.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The bottom line Tech investors were cheering Wednesday as four of the seven megacap tech stocks closed at all-time highs, with Amazon, Meta, Tesla and Alphabet adding roughly $416 billion in market cap for the day.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024

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“Buoy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buoy. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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