buffer

That is the cash buffer the government has to help meet its own fiscal rules and reduce borrowing.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

It also sent troops into a UN-patrolled buffer zone that had separated Israeli and Syrian forces on the mainly Israeli-occupied Golan Heights since 1974.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Hayes family represents a broader shift across California, where the 5-foot buffer is rapidly morphing from an afterthought into a sought-after home feature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

An inner buffer against direct flames and heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Dad and I move toward and away from the shelves, like hopping bugs, trying to make a buffer of space between us and other shoppers.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

“Some of the buffers that helped contain crude oil prices are ebbing,” McNally told MarketWatch by email Monday from Riyadh, where he was attending the 17th International Energy Forum.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

Some hard-hit countries want to expand their own buffers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

It “strengthens the banks’ capital buffers while giving the authorities more time to deal with losses and declining returns without forcing an immediate recognition and liquidation,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Some were appointed ladder makers, others were painters, and still others were buffers and polishers, who shined up the tarnished sides of the tanks and took the rust off the axes and pike heads.

From The Boy Scout Fire Fighters by Irving Crump

"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

Two other popular First Trust buffered products have lagged behind their benchmarks too.

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

Day made clear that defined-outcome or buffered ETFs were not designed to outperform underlying stock indexes.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026

The northern side of 141st Street was buffered by brownstones standing shoulder to shoulder, as if marching in formation.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

These links, used by Kiran and his friends, have practical downsides – such as frequent buffering or poor quality, or platforms that disappear without warning.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

NordVPN’s performance was stable, though occasional buffering occurred on congested servers during peak hours.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 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