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

A proposed state mandate and shrinking insurance options are pushing homeowners to turn a critical 5-foot zone around their homes into a buffer against wildfires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

All night I sweated in my bed, the thin mattress offering no buffer for my constant tossing and turning.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

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

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

Fluid pressure car buffers, in which a constant supply of fluid under pressure is provided by a pump or train pipe connected to the engine is one of a great variety.

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

"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

If you’re really worried that the AI-fueled rally is a bubble that is about to pop and bring down the entire market with it, then buffered ETFs will help you sleep at night.

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

For monthly series of Innovator buffered ETFs, the upside limit is changed upon annual reset, according to market conditions.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026

The outside noises of cars pulling up and people yelling “See you tomorrow!” surround me, but I am buffered by earmuffs, an island on the steps.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

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

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