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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

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

A large and diversified domestic deposit base and high-quality liquid assets provide an additional buffer, while banks’ direct credit exposure to sectors most vulnerable to the conflict remains limited, S&P says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The newly appointed chancellor told the paper he would ensure the UK has a solid "buffer against uncertainty" amid the "dangerous" economic environment that has seen the UK and its allies suffer fiscal damage.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 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

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

“Those have largely now played out, and we don’t have nearly the buffers in the system that we did when it began.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Beyond the immediate geopolitical premium, the physical market is also losing some of the buffers that helped absorb the initial supply shock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

They carry big rope buffers at bow and sides, and in spite of this their bulwarks are splintered and scarred where they have been jammed against wharves and knocked about.

From A Northern Countryside by Rosalind Richards

"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

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

Inside it, she was an observer, buffered from the scrutinizing eyes of strangers.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

Still, as I shuffled papers, I became part of the buffering, incomplete chain of communication.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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

And there were no lagging or buffering issues.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 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