Synonyms for propping up
prop·ping up

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1. shoring, shoring up, propping upnoun

   the act of propping up with shores

   Synonyms:
   shore, shoring up, shoring

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1. Kirk Lippold:

   Iran is taking strategic advantage of tactical decisions that are being made, initially with the proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon, recently propping up the government of Assad in Syria, and now, look at what is happening in Iraq.

2. David Curry:

   The Kim dynasty is responsible for perpetuating deplorable human rights conditions in the name of propping up the regime, the death or incapacitation of Kim Jong Un is likely the only opportunity for this generation to see a historic resurgence of human rights protections for North Korean citizens.

3. Will Marshall:

   Republicans are tapping into frustrations real and imagined, but we have left a vacuum, we have no reform agenda. Our party is seen as propping up a bureaucratic status quo that many parents thought didn't perform well during the pandemic. You can't just point to Republican demagoguery about race and books and win the argument. You have to make voters a counteroffer.

4. Sarah Sanders:

   Sarah Sanders guys will cover it endlessly all day today. All day tomorrow and my guess every day next week with very little time given to the issues that people care about. So the president has every right to call out that individual that Sarah Sanders guys are propping up and saying that there are problems and that we should be concerned about it.

5. Nikki Haley:

   I can't get the images out of my head of people on their knees blindfolded, knowing what's about to happen to them, i can't imagine in any way supporting that or propping up China.