bulwark
noun
a wall of earth or other material built for defense; rampart.
bulwarked
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past participleof bulwark.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof bulwark.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
bulwarknouna wall of earth or other material built for defense; rampart.
Example Sentences
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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
Those faces were very red, but their owners looked away resolutely and were plainly animated by a stern sense of duty, bulwarked as they were by the Workers.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
