buffer
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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
The newly appointed chancellor told the paper he would ensure the UK has a solid "buffer against uncertainty" amid the "dangerous" economic environment that has seen the UK and its allies suffer fiscal damage.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Rather, it has a patchwork of municipal and county zoning ordinances, with some — including in the cities of Burbank and Culver City and Alameda County — requiring buffer zones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
It is a tragedy that happens often to anyone who acts as a buffer.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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The old incurred-loss method for smaller institutions was straightforward and nearly cost-free, and it permitted regulators to use capital requirements to provide adequate buffers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
For publicly traded state financial firms, shoring up these capital buffers will also help create greater value and deliver steady, long-term returns for investors, it added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
"Had these buffers been in place, today's supply shock would have been substantially cushioned," Cofek says.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
If the world’s inventory buffers were depleted, $120 is a price that could trigger enough demand destruction to put global supply and demand back in balance, Merritt Point’s Baird said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Under these awful pressures the huge floes, as they met, crumbling at the edges, threw up vast masses of broken ice which in long pressure-ridges acted as buffers.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely
"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
Astoria launched a hedged growth fund for separately managed accounts in late 2020 that offers strategies similar to buffered ETFs.
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
Down, down the hill he went, buffered by the cool breeze.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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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
The massive audience tested the technical capacity of the streaming platform, as many fans complained of buffering or losing the video feed completely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
And did so with no buffering issues or freeze-ups.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 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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