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Greenwald is among numerous conservationists who believe knocking down barred owls en masse is needed to prop up northern spotted owls.

The country's central bank has also cracked down on easy unsecured lending that propped up demand post the Covid pandemic.

From BBC

When Joe Biden was still president, the pressure to insist that he was as fit as a fiddle and as sharp as a tack led them to prop up a fatally unpopular president.

That gets even worse when you consider the tokenization because our culture likes to prop up people as representatives of our entire community.

From Salon

Money from boomers is propping up the next generation, rather than being hoarded, according to pensioner Gilda Smith.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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