buffer
Example Sentences
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I like the style, but it's not as good of a buffer as my curls used to be.
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Even so, a few days was better than nothing—I needed any buffer I could get—and my mom was busting at the seams in anticipation of seeing her baby boy again, as she kept saying.
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“I know, old scout. But the Abbot’s such a decent old buffer that he believes there’s good in everyone, even Cluny. What?”
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“Point 17K states you must make the energetic particle radiation density buffer bypass the aft tactical resonance coil,” Klawde said.
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The more buffer he had between him and Tad when they finally were face-to-face, the better.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.