buffer
noun
an apparatus at the end of a railroad car, railroad track, etc., for absorbing shock during coupling, collisions, etc.
buffers
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present tense formof buffer (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Varian Perception reversed from risk-on to risk-off based somewhat on buffers provided by strong earnings.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
“Some of the buffers that helped contain crude oil prices are ebbing,” McNally told MarketWatch by email Monday from Riyadh, where he was attending the 17th International Energy Forum.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Stocks fell by a further 95 million barrels in August alone, leaving smaller buffers against additional supply disruptions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
He said he would seek to leverage tax dollars to help communities better prepare for wildfires, creating buffers and hardening structures because of wildfires that will inevitably occur in certain communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Under these awful pressures the huge floes, as they met, crumbling at the edges, threw up vast masses of broken ice which in long pressure-ridges acted as buffers.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely
