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buoyed; buoying; buoys
1
: to mark by or as if by a float or buoy
buoy an anchor
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: to raise the spirits of
—usually used with up
hope buoys him up
: float
—usually used with up
They buoyed up like a cork.
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Verb
The tax breaks should help to buoy the economy.
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A.o. Scott, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Data from the agency’s vast ocean monitoring networks, including ships, satellites and fleets of robotic buoys, feeds into near-term forecasts for weather and helps predict waves and tides.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 18 Apr. 2025
Hong Leong group patriarch Quek Leng Chan strengthened his position as the second-richest person with a $1 billion jump in his net worth to $9.8 billion, buoyed by robust sales at his family’s finance-to-food conglomerate.
—Anu Raghunathan, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
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Noun
The poem’s individual words and syllables bob like a string of harbor buoys.
—A.o. Scott, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Data from the agency’s vast ocean monitoring networks, including ships, satellites and fleets of robotic buoys, feeds into near-term forecasts for weather and helps predict waves and tides.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
Verb
Huawei reported a 22% surge in revenue in 2024 — the fastest growth since 2016 — buoyed by a recovery in its consumer products business.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 18 Apr. 2025
Hong Leong group patriarch Quek Leng Chan strengthened his position as the second-richest person with a $1 billion jump in his net worth to $9.8 billion, buoyed by robust sales at his family’s finance-to-food conglomerate.
—Anu Raghunathan, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Buoy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buoy. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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