buffer
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Ideally someone in my situation would have an extra cash buffer in an easily accessible savings account to pay down the card.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
She added that the government is committed to its fiscal rules "with a buffer against uncertainty".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Their varied diets should also buffer them from imbalances in prey populations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Although these premiums are likely to normalize as geopolitical tensions ease, they have provided a buffer for export earnings and fiscal revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
It also provided funds—$170 million since 1978—for the purchase of private lands to provide a wilderness buffer alongside it.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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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
Beyond the immediate geopolitical premium, the physical market is also losing some of the buffers that helped absorb the initial supply shock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
It comes after years of stagnation in the eurozone’s largest economy, whose export-orientated industrial sector hit the buffers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 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
Just look at the performance of the largest buffered ETF in the last bear market.
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
A buffered ETF’s manager can limit the downside risk through derivative trades, using option-premium income to enable the protection.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
Down, down the hill he went, buffered by the cool breeze.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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Still, as I shuffled papers, I became part of the buffering, incomplete chain of communication.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
It resonates more with the progress bar instead of the buffering icon.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2026
Without my boyfriend’s paycheck buffering our vibes-based accounting, it was time to face the scariest part of managing your money: the spending audit.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026
Great for weekly movie nights without the buffering headaches.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026
I've looked at a lot of code for electronic buffering.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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