buffer
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Positive dealer gamma could buffer a decline, as market makers may help cushion the decline due to hedging flows.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
"We try to hold a week's buffer across all nine outlets, but this summer that's getting hard to promise," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
As the Moon travels around Earth, it sometimes moves through the magnetosheath, a buffer region surrounding the magnetosphere.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Though payments technically started coming due again in 2023, the Biden administration provided a one-year buffer period that ended in the fall of 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
It would be hard for him, having Julie without Bri serving as a buffer.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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If the world’s inventory buffers were depleted, $120 is a price that could trigger enough demand destruction to put global supply and demand back in balance, Merritt Point’s Baird said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
With the coaster slated to open in the coming days or weeks, residents aren’t optimistic for change or the sudden construction of more noise buffers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Those capabilities are essential for creating buffers and memory functions in optical computers.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
One reason: fuel markets didn’t have the buffers that crude oil had.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Men and women sat precariously on the roofs of the ramshackle carriages, stood on the buffers and couplings, or clung to door-handles.
From The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 by Tracy, Louis
Astoria launched a hedged growth fund for separately managed accounts in late 2020 that offers strategies similar to buffered ETFs.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
If you’re really worried that the AI-fueled rally is a bubble that is about to pop and bring down the entire market with it, then buffered ETFs will help you sleep at night.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
So far prices have been modulated in financial markets by expectations of an imminent settlement and buffered in the physical market by the drawing down of inventories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
A buffered ETF’s manager can limit the downside risk through derivative trades, using option-premium income to enable the protection.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
Inside it, she was an observer, buffered from the scrutinizing eyes of strangers.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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It resonates more with the progress bar instead of the buffering icon.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2026
Without my boyfriend’s paycheck buffering our vibes-based accounting, it was time to face the scariest part of managing your money: the spending audit.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026
And did so with no buffering issues or freeze-ups.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026
Previous attempts at live broadcasting, like the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight in 2024, resulted in buffering issues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
It’s a protective mechanism for them, a way of buffering themselves against my future death, like when teenagers distance themselves from their parents in preparation for leaving home.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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