buffer
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While all his experiences up to 2016 were instructive, they couldn’t buffer the shock and disgust of the backlash to his protest.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026
However, one option that has been floated is Healey potentially accepting a smaller buffer, reducing the need to increase taxes in the Budget.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Ideally someone in my situation would have an extra cash buffer in an easily accessible savings account to pay down the card.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
They have served as "a buffer that absorbs bad years so that a single drought or a single dry season does not translate directly into a water crisis", she told reporters.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
You can’t see the sun through the thin buffer of cloud cover but the light is fully diffused, almost too bright to see.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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He said he would seek to leverage tax dollars to help communities better prepare for wildfires, creating buffers and hardening structures because of wildfires that will inevitably occur in certain communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
At a recent event in Houston, Chevron Chief Executive Mike Wirth warned that strategic reserves and other buffers that cushioned the effect of the Iran war in its early stages were now wearing thin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
It's possible that a global AI race travelling at Silicon Valley's top speeds could be about to hit the buffers of very localised political and environmental concerns.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
As those cost buffers fade, manufacturers may have to choose between raising prices, accepting lower profit margins, or risking weaker demand, it adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
They cut intricate patterns of feint, attack and withdraw, using passing vehicles as buffers.
From DP by Arthur Dekker Savage
"The people who are responsible for doing this in the first place seem to have got away from it, they seem to be protected and buffered and inured," Sheen said.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
For monthly series of Innovator buffered ETFs, the upside limit is changed upon annual reset, according to market conditions.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
But noise, as well as glare, are typically buffered with vegetative landscaping and setbacks, or the distance between the property line and the nearest structure.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2026
Something about these spirits buffered her, kept her afloat.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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By buffering those short-term fluctuations, the kidney might help maintain a more consistent individual chemical profile in urine.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
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
Great for weekly movie nights without the buffering headaches.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026
The houses on this road were crowded together and shared common walls, with small, walled yards in front buffering them from the street.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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