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buoyed; buoying; buoys
1
: to mark by or as if by a float or buoy
buoy an anchor
2
3
: to raise the spirits of
—usually used with up
hope buoys him up
: float
—usually used with up
They buoyed up like a cork.
Examples of buoy in a Sentence
Verb
The tax breaks should help to buoy the economy.
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Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
That is, a model like the ECMWF spends an enormous amount of computing power to collect data from buoys, surface stations, weather balloons, airplanes, ships, satellites, and many other sources and then synthesizes a set of initial conditions for grid points across the planet.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 June 2024
Bryan Walsh, Vox, 1 July 2024
Now, buoyed by the Supreme Court’s decision, the two vaping trade organizations in Washington see potential for a major breakthrough.
—Nicholas Florko, STAT, 28 June 2024
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Noun
The streamer now resembled a wing, hemmed at the top with tubular buoys and weighted at the bottom with chains and one of the boat anchors.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
That is, a model like the ECMWF spends an enormous amount of computing power to collect data from buoys, surface stations, weather balloons, airplanes, ships, satellites, and many other sources and then synthesizes a set of initial conditions for grid points across the planet.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 June 2024
Verb
Yet Ginsburg — buoyed by a number of Democratic supporters who viewed calls for her retirement as sexist — refused to step down.
—Bryan Walsh, Vox, 1 July 2024
Now, buoyed by the Supreme Court’s decision, the two vaping trade organizations in Washington see potential for a major breakthrough.
—Nicholas Florko, STAT, 28 June 2024
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“Buoy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buoy. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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