buffer
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Financial experts said that, with uncertainty still part of the picture, borrowers needed to build a financial buffer in case of future changes.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
With their 2-1 win on Monday night, they moved to 36 points to open a six-point buffer between them and the relegation zone with six matches left.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
Every year, Sue Ferreri typically allows a 10 percent "buffer" for production budgeting, "but it's well above that now...We're looking at 20, 25 percent, and it's mainly due to the diesel cost," she told AFP.
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
Asian refineries are working through their existing inventories, and some countries including Japan and South Korea are releasing strategic oil reserves as a buffer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
But the next year, in March 1936, Hitler stationed troops in the Rhineland, the buffer zone between Germany and France.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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