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If you don't have a buffer of other savings, then experts say an easy access account gives you the chance to dip into the money to pay an unexpected bill.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 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

Their varied diets should also buffer them from imbalances in prey populations.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

The 735 million Hong Kong dollar take-private could reduce Public Bank’s capital buffer, but shouldn’t hinder its dividend payout or plan to return 3.5 billion ringgit in excess capital over three years, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

I like the style, but it's not as good of a buffer as my curls used to be.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

Stocks fell by a further 95 million barrels in August alone, leaving smaller buffers against additional supply disruptions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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

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

The old incurred-loss method for smaller institutions was straightforward and nearly cost-free, and it permitted regulators to use capital requirements to provide adequate buffers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

If such volumes, full of pleasant memories, are destined never to appear, it will only be because publishers are, perhaps providentially, placed as protecting buffers between the public and the author.

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles

"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

Just look at the performance of the largest buffered ETF in the last bear market.

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 defined-outcome or buffered ETF is one that protects the investor by limiting downside risk in return for giving up some of the broad stock market’s upside potential.

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

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

When doing things like online gaming, torrenting and streaming while connected to ExpressVPN, I didn’t experience any lag, buffering or freeze-ups on any of the servers I tested.

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