buoy up

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• Pointing their phones at the area around the buoys, they’d see the digital sculptures appear.

• Waterfront landowners often express concerns that oyster farms near the shoreline — and the network of buoys and docks that may come along with them — disrupt their scenic views.

• Now, satellite-tracked buoys that simulated wayward rafts suggest that there’s little chance that the seafarers reached the isles by accident.

• Results are sent from the buoy via satellite to researchers who confirm the sounds, and match them to visual sightings from scientists and whale-watching boats in the area.

• Onboard a computer on the buoy out at sea, an automated detection algorithm harnessing the power of artificial intelligence identifies nearby vocalizing blue, humpback, and fin whales in near real-time.

• They also helped buoy Chavez's political fortunes, winning him momentum before a crucial recall vote.

• And he will buoy hopes among Democrats that Virginia is reliably purple, if not blue, in the 2016 presidential election.

• If you could launch these things from, say, a floating buoy, you could solve a lot of problems at once.

• They gave me a jolt of encouragement that is going to buoy me for the rest of my writing life.

• Bailouts, government guarantees, and the Fed's easy money policies helped buoy banks.

• The Nora lies becalmed not far from the Goodwin buoy, with her sails hanging idly on the yards.

• The buoy having been secured, an iron hook and chain of great strength were then attached to the ring in its head.

• “You see we require stronger tackle,” said the captain to Stanley, while the buoy was being slowly raised.