buffer

Example Sentences

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It creates a buffer between the set-up of the play, and the ball being delivered into the box.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

When you structure time deposits like this with either CDs, Treasurys or other bonds, you create a buffer for yourself from interest-rate risk.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

That route, called the Traffic Separation Scheme, established one 2-mile-wide lane for entering and one 2-mile-wide lane for leaving the Persian Gulf, plus a 2-mile-wide buffer zone.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

“If Brent crude remains above $100 a barrel for long, the tax-refund buffer will eventually be exhausted, real income growth will compress further, and aggregate demand will slow.”

From Barron's • May 4, 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