as in to protect
to drive danger or attack away from
vowed to use any means necessary to bulwark the country against attack
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as in rampart
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as in support
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Recent Examples of bulwark
Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
Apple is a bulwark of stable financial returns given its CROCI of more than 75% projected for 2025 and 2026, according to Goldman’s estimates.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2025
Michael Wahid Hanna, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2019
Topics include safeguarding city dwellers from extreme heat and bulwarking coastal towns against rising seas.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
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Verb
Because banana plants are propagated asexually via rhizome cuttings rather than seeds, entire plantations can be wiped out in a single outbreak, with no genetic bulwark to slow or prevent the pathogen’s advance.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
Apple is a bulwark of stable financial returns given its CROCI of more than 75% projected for 2025 and 2026, according to Goldman’s estimates.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
This makes Iraq a weak but vital ally and bulwark against Iranian influence.
—Michael Wahid Hanna, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2019
Topics include safeguarding city dwellers from extreme heat and bulwarking coastal towns against rising seas.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bulwark
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In experiments set up to leave AI models few options and stress-test alignment, top systems from OpenAI, Google, and others frequently resorted to blackmail—and in an extreme case, even allowed fictional deaths—to protect their interests.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
23 June 2025
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No one disputes that a government’s first responsibility is to protect its own citizens.—
Michael Sheldrick,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
Noun
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In the past, the upper parts of the castle ramparts, walls, and communication trenches were used as hanging gardens, where people cultivated citrus trees, vineyards, and olive trees, useful in case of siege for the self-support of the inhabitants.—
Elisabetta Tosi,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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That pleasantry starts to end on June 8, 2014, when Resy launches itself against the ramparts of the OpenTable juggernaut and the reservation-platform wars began.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
7 May 2025
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Despite the proposal receiving some bipartisan support Wednesday afternoon, lawmakers on the Joint Legislative Audit Committee stopped short of recommending the project be audited.—
Kate Wolffe,
Sacbee.com,
19 June 2025
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Carter’s has increased support to help address the need for affordable housing and its latest contribution will help fund the unit within the Cottages at Heritage Grove, a 55-plus pocket neighborhood located in Tavares that has 23 homes.—
Orlando Sentinel Staff,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 June 2025
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Last month in Laguna Beach, while a 15-year-old girl was out on a driving lesson with her father, their car rolled through a fence and down an embankment from a closed grocery store parking lot to Coast Highway below.—
Sydney Barragan,
Oc Register,
26 June 2025
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Last month, archaeologists were able to start excavating and securing the site, which is located on a low beach embankment and protected only by a thin layer of topsoil.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 June 2025
Verb
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The administration continues to defend its use of tariffs by arguing that emergency powers give the president the authority to regulate imports during national emergencies, and officials have argued that the country's trade deficit qualifies as a national emergency.—
Peter Aitken
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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The Brazilian side defended resolutely and were able to regularly counter the French champions.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
Noun
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Douglas County is trying to do something no other Colorado county has done in nearly 50 years — adopt home-rule authority that would give the conservative bastion south of Denver more autonomy and powers of self-governance.—
John Aguilar,
Denver Post,
8 June 2025
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The Federalist Society has become a bastion of that project, with Leo serving as its longtime former executive vice president.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
4 June 2025
Verb
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The Del is a living testament to safeguarding our past.—
Michael James Rocha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
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The 5 Best Shower Filters to Save Your Skin and Hair from Hard Water Tips to Improve Water Quality To ensure that your home has healthy, clean water for drinking and bathing, here are a few tips to consider to safeguard your water supply.—
Timothy Dale,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 June 2025
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Iran's most advanced and hardened nuclear facility, the Fordow plant in the country's northwest, is a fortress.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
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The then-British fortress was famously captured by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold in May 1775, marking a pivotal moment in the early stages of the Revolutionary War.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2025
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“Bulwark.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bulwark. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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