He used his business experience as a bootstrap to win voters.
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Bootstrap
/ˈbuːtˌstɹæp/
Synonyms for "bootstrap" (27 found)
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Noun(13 words)
seedingself compileself financeself financingself fundself fundingself hostself startingself starting approachself-sufficientstart upstartupstatistical resampling
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21 entriesBCa bootstrapboot programbootloaderbootstrap confidence intervalbootstrap estimatorbootstrap loaderbootstrap percentile methodbootstrap programbootstrappinghard bootindependently functioningnonparametric bootstrapparametric bootstrappercentile bootstrapreinvest profitsrevenue reinvestment
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10 entriesbootstrap compilerbootstrap distributionbootstrap estimatebootstrap estimatorbootstrap loaderbootstrap methodbootstrap processbootstrap programbootstrap samplebootstrapping procedure
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Sam spent years bootstrapping himself through college.
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I was born into that shitty town, maleness, in the remains of outdated ideals and misplaced machismo and repression and there are some good people stuck living there. They are not in charge. They did not build it. And I don’t feel okay just moving out and saying “fuck y’all — bootstrap your way out or die out, I was never one of you.” I want to make it a better, healthier place—not spend all my time talking about how shitty it is and how anyone who would choose to live there deserves it.
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Bootstrapping means building the GNU C Library, GNU Compiler Collection and several other key system programs.
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