cushion
Example Sentences
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But those buffers have been reduced, he said, and may soon lose their ability to cushion the market from the full impact of the supply shortfall.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
Higher crude prices raise the cost of diesel, gasoline, cooking fuel, transport and food, while governments have limited fiscal room to cushion the blow.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
Though likely temporary, the extra funding is expected to give Newsom enough cushion to balance the state budget without major cuts and lower a projected shortfall in 2027-28.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
These factors have helped cushion the impact of the conflict, despite Beijing being Iran's biggest buyer of oil.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
There they saw an enormous—and enormously upright—hawk sitting immobile on the back of the front-row bus seat, his claws digging terrifyingly into the plastic not-leather cushion.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
Vocabulary lists containing cushion
"Icarus's Flight," Vocabulary from the poem
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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"Modern Automotive Technology," Vocabulary from Section 10
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