bulwark

For him, it’s a bulwark against a bar culture that has become “very insular and not very fun.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Death imagery as a bulwark against fear of death is so well known that it is covered under the psychological umbrella of Terror Management Theory as a coping mechanism.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

The U.S. military presence is a legacy of World War II, when Americans helped stabilize and rebuild Europe, and the Cold War, when the troops served as a bulwark against Soviet expansion.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

Over the causeway toward the huge smoldering bulwark of Saint-Malo.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Most of my life, the American right has had lots of bulwarks against that kind of racism and antisemitism—and militant, anti-democratic strains.

From Slate ● May 18, 2024

Forests could also be potential bulwarks against climate change.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

These massive bulwarks have an insidious effect: While physically blocking views of the ocean, they also conceal the threat of what lurks on the horizon.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

I played my fifths and my scales, which, lapping gently upon the bulwarks of the ships we passed, drew sailors to the rails as we rowed on.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

No one can compute how much the bulwarked learned ones have blocked the path of wisdom.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard

The lesson wasn’t about which class of stocks is safer, but rather that diversification means not only bulwarking your portfolio against downturns but also enhancing your chances of long-term success.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

In late 1938, dead-sure war was coming, Rosenstiel began bulwarking his company against war's impact.

From Time Magazine Archive

His inquiries had been bent towards so disposing the financial operations, so bulwarking the mining industry by sagacious designs, that, when the worst came, they all would be able to weather the storm.

From The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker