shock absorber
Example Sentences
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Cash flow was significantly stronger than expected, due to lower investments, but this only acts as a partial shock absorber to the negative results, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
First, China has turned itself into the world’s oil shock absorber.
From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025
Financial markets act like a shock absorber for investment.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 14, 2025
These findings also call for revising the role of molecular unfolding, updating the traditional view that it functions as a mechanosensor and a shock absorber when molecules unfold under external force.
From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024
The rear wheel shock absorber was loose too.
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
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