bulwark

The new defense agreement could be seen as an effort to build up a bulwark against future Iranian attacks, analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Zinat-un-Nisa was a powerful political actor and an "extraordinarily influential and important political bulwark for her ageing and politically vulnerable" father toward the end of his life.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 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

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

Their purpose is the opposite: to preserve and protect; to create bulwarks of predictability amid the chaos of the markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

Forests could also be potential bulwarks against climate change.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

Both strikes, Taplin says, were successful because the guilds gained bulwarks against potential decimation by artificial intelligence.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

Political parties with his backing continued to win elections but were forced from power several times by the courts and the army, both bulwarks of royalism.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

Instead of surging over the bulwarks and exploding in the captain’s face, it ricocheted off the ship’s side and went straight into the Pacific, where it died with a hiss.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

The valuations are bulwarked by new information from Cerebras’s pre-IPO filings with the SEC showing company revenue grew 76% between 2024 and 2025 to $510 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

Presidential blue-ribbon panels bulwarked the Social Security program in 1983 and overhauled NASA’s space shuttle program after the 1986 Challenger disaster.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 24, 2023

Even Einstein, the prototypical loner, was bulwarked by a vast correspondence of arguing and discussion.

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2016

He didn't say that the British way is better, cleaner, more constitutionally bulwarked – because, actually, it isn't.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2010

Twin monoliths bulwarked the passage end; the gigantic stones were leaning, crumbling.

From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt

In addition to bulwarking security, many are bunkering from reporters who have descended on a normally sleepy community.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2023

On the DDoS front, the companies involved are doubtless bolstering their defenses, but bulwarking for brute force denial of service attacks is an ongoing process, and there’s no panacea.

From Time ● Aug. 25, 2014

Motivating force of the congress was the increasing awareness of the value of economically sound and socially expedient insurance plans in bulwarking stable governments and increasing war production and national wealth.

From Time Magazine Archive

In late 1938, dead-sure war was coming, Rosenstiel began bulwarking his company against war's impact.

From Time Magazine Archive

He left General Totten on the stairs, leaped down the remaining steps, and ran to a group of watchmen and night employees of the State House who were bulwarking the soldiers.

From All-Wool Morrison by Holman Day