buffer

“Wide sandy beaches serve as a necessary buffer to protect the rail line.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

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

Normally, automakers build buffer stocks of outgoing vehicles to buy time when factories have to be reworked for a new model.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

You can’t see the sun through the thin buffer of cloud cover but the light is fully diffused, almost too bright to see.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Varian Perception reversed from risk-on to risk-off based somewhat on buffers provided by strong earnings.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

“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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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

On the bench which ran out from the wheel were a spirit lamp and the trays of rough opal; on the other side of the bench the polishing buffers were arranged one against the other.

From The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard

Drawdowns in inventories from China to Europe to the U.S., which buffered the market in the conflict’s first seven months, have left little room for error.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"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

So this fund, like buffered and other defined outcome funds, has lagged behind the S&P 500 for the most part.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Despite the considerable hype surrounding these buffered ETFs, Crill has found their risk-reward profile to be substantially similar to the 60/40 portfolio.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026

Something about these spirits buffered her, kept her afloat.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

It would have the right to sell that compute power at a specific price by a stated date, buffering itself from a steeper hit to profits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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