absorber

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AT1s, also known as "contingent convertibles" or "CoCos", were introduced after the 2008 financial crisis to act as shock absorbers if bank capital levels fell below a certain threshold.

From Reuters

Ha said the currency was a useful "shock absorber" so there was no concern around how the New Zealand dollar is behaving from the stand point of monetary policy.

From Reuters

Those disks act as shock absorbers between the bones in the spine, and a herniation happens when a piece of those disks breaks through its casing and irritates nerves in the area.

From Washington Post

“He’s a big absorber of news. He reads so much that he’s actually thinking he needs to dial it back, because he knows ... he gets riled up,” Doug says.

From Washington Post

As his neighbors open up to him, and show him the world he'd been avoiding, he would be a great absorber of those details.

From Salon