buffer

Example Sentences

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“Japan will no longer have a buffer, if you will,” she said, adding that it would face direct pressure from the Chinese navy.

From The Wall Street Journal

The best practice is to add between 5% and 10% to your budget as a buffer to protect against price spikes and emergency expenses.

From MarketWatch

The buffer, introduced in 2018 in an effort to ensure systemic stability in the banking system, is set twice annually based on household debt, asset imbalances and other financial trends and risks.

From The Wall Street Journal

For more than 30 years before that, effectively since World War II, Afghanistan had served as a buffer state between the American and the Soviet empires.

From Salon

The bank has been facing the prospect of steeper capital requirements in its home country, and it voiced opposition to the previous proposal, arguing that it doesn’t need bigger capital buffers to stay safe.

From The Wall Street Journal