buffer
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He also said using a projection that accounts for only 75% to 80% of that estimated benefit can help younger workers build a buffer into their retirement finances in case benefits are reduced.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
They have served as "a buffer that absorbs bad years so that a single drought or a single dry season does not translate directly into a water crisis", she told reporters.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Their varied diets should also buffer them from imbalances in prey populations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
FAA and airport officials said the system wasn’t deemed necessary because of a safety buffer already around the runway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Even so, a few days was better than nothing—I needed any buffer I could get—and my mom was busting at the seams in anticipation of seeing her baby boy again, as she kept saying.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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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
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
"Had these buffers been in place, today's supply shock would have been substantially cushioned," Cofek says.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
They cut intricate patterns of feint, attack and withdraw, using passing vehicles as buffers.
From DP by Arthur Dekker Savage
"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
Davi added that “this trend has fueled significant interest in buffered ETFs” over the past few years.
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
Inside it, she was an observer, buffered from the scrutinizing eyes of strangers.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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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
Even on distant servers, buffering wasn’t an issue, and video quality remained consistent throughout my testing.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
It resonates more with the progress bar instead of the buffering icon.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 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
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