Synonyms for prop up
prop up

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1. prop up, prop, shore up, shoreverb

   support by placing against something solid or rigid

   "shore and buttress an old building"

   Synonyms:
   set ashore, shore, shore up, land, prop

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1. Jim Carafano:

   The problem is, when you buy oil from Venezuela, essentially what you're doing is you're putting dollars in to prop up the economy and more entrench the Maduro regime, and at the same time, the only reason why this regime is existing at all, is on life support, is because of support from the Chinese, the Russians and the Cubans. So you have really the most detestable regime in Latin America that’s basically subsisting on these external actors.

2. Bob Menendez:

   It sends Maduro a message, as well as Russia and China that are helping to prop up Maduro.

3. Chris Christie:

   There's now 300,000 nearly dead in Syria because of Assad and now Putin is going in and teaming with the Iranians to prop up Assad, only Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton could mess up this foreign policy that badly.

4. Betsy Brantner Smith:

   After the worst week politically in his presidential career, it appears that Joe Biden plans to pivot to ‘police reform’ to prop up his faltering reputation and revive his popularity with‘anti-police’ activists.

5. Air Force Secretary Deborah James:

   I don’t think we fully understand what it’s about, needless to say, any efforts that would attempt to prop up a regime that is causing such death and destruction is not a welcome series of events.