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supported

[ UK /səpˈɔːtɪd/ ]
[ US /səˈpɔɹtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. held up or having the weight borne especially from below
    supported joints in a railroad track have ties directly under the rail ends
  2. sustained or maintained by aid (as distinct from physical support)
    a club entirely supported by membership dues
    well-supported allegations

How To Use supported In A Sentence

  • The Danish Dairy Board and the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries supported this study.
  • Hotspur is an uncommon man, whose uncommonness is unsupported by his father at a critical moment. William Shakespeare
  • They acted as an anchorage for the stanchions which, standing on the seabed, supported the harbours.
  • Mrs King is being supported by her husband Simon, a police inspector with Wiltshire Constabulary, who is also a seasoned runner.
  • The latest strategy is now seen dropping unsupported accusations across the media spectrum to the effect that the intelligence agency's assignment of Ambassador Joseph Wilson to look into the now-discredited Iraq/Niger/uranium claims were all part of a long-term insidious scheme to try and discredit the Bush Administration. Brad Friedman: Wingnuts Declare Coordinated All-Out Cross-Media War on CIA as Newest Front in TreasonGate!
  • The Dutch United Provinces supported the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
  • A more material reason for the recent spread of campus farms is probably the rise of community-supported agriculture.
  • The skin is fibreglass over a thin layer of plywood, which is itself supported by a skeleton of thicker ply, stiffened by a steel structure.
  • As the passage continues there is a section of rotten flooring supported on dubious stemples just above head height.
  • Perret considers this dispatch an anomaly: "It stands alone, unsupported, unrepeated."
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