bulwark

Zinat-un-Nisa was a powerful political actor and an "extraordinarily influential and important political bulwark for her ageing and politically vulnerable" father toward the end of his life.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

Far from corrupting high culture, the middlebrow was once the bulwark that protected it.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026

We saw it repeatedly called a bulwark of liberty.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026

The Supreme Court Associate Justice explains why the legislative process is ‘the bulwark of liberty.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026

Certainly it was the emptiest of his threats, for he was nothing if not a provider and a bulwark.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

There will be raking, and pile-making, and paper sacks stuffed with leaves, arrayed along curbs like defensive bulwarks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

Today, they are instead largely leading small and siloed efforts in their states, trying to act as bulwarks against the relentless onslaught of the sports betting lobby.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025

Forests could also be potential bulwarks against climate change.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

Political parties with his backing continued to win elections but were forced from power several times by the courts and the army, both bulwarks of royalism.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

Instead of surging over the bulwarks and exploding in the captain’s face, it ricocheted off the ship’s side and went straight into the Pacific, where it died with a hiss.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

The valuations are bulwarked by new information from Cerebras’s pre-IPO filings with the SEC showing company revenue grew 76% between 2024 and 2025 to $510 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

Presidential blue-ribbon panels bulwarked the Social Security program in 1983 and overhauled NASA’s space shuttle program after the 1986 Challenger disaster.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 24, 2023

Even Einstein, the prototypical loner, was bulwarked by a vast correspondence of arguing and discussion.

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2016

He didn't say that the British way is better, cleaner, more constitutionally bulwarked – because, actually, it isn't.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2010

The teamster was too thoroughly bulwarked by admirers to allow the rampant Kyle an opportunity to get at him.

From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day

In addition to bulwarking security, many are bunkering from reporters who have descended on a normally sleepy community.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2023

On the DDoS front, the companies involved are doubtless bolstering their defenses, but bulwarking for brute force denial of service attacks is an ongoing process, and there’s no panacea.

From Time ● Aug. 25, 2014

Motivating force of the congress was the increasing awareness of the value of economically sound and socially expedient insurance plans in bulwarking stable governments and increasing war production and national wealth.

From Time Magazine Archive

The State Department insisted gamely that Nixon was actually bulwarking Rogers' political initiative.

From Time Magazine Archive

He left General Totten on the stairs, leaped down the remaining steps, and ran to a group of watchmen and night employees of the State House who were bulwarking the soldiers.

From All-Wool Morrison by Holman Day