bulwark
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“This might be a record here,” Hathaway tells the crowd near the end of the song, and so it was — a document of adaptation, a testament to borrowing, a bulwark against pretty fictions.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 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
Increasingly Pacific nations understand that defense spending is more than a necessary bulwark of national security.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Earnings are coming in strong, supplying another bulwark.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
If Aristotle were to fall, the proof of God—a bulwark of the church—was no longer valid.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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