bulwark
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Earnings are coming in strong, supplying another bulwark.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
Far from corrupting high culture, the middlebrow was once the bulwark that protected it.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
We saw it repeatedly called a bulwark of liberty.
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026
During World War II, Greenland provided the Allies a bulwark thanks to its strategic location in the contested North Atlantic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026
A fortification is a task, a line, a curve, not a bulwark.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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