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verb

Definition of bulwarknext
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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bulwark

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noun

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as in rampart

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as in support

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as in embankment

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Recent Examples of bulwark
Verb
In 2025 Trump declared a National Energy Emergency aimed at bulwarking the coal industry. — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 4 June 2026 The Lost Cause was fortified by presidential power and bulwarked for a century by Jim Crow. — Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
According to Lucci, the dam also acted as a defensive bulwark during last November’s Typhoon Uwan, capturing over 99% of rainfall and sparing the lives of many downstream communities. — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026 The leading candidate to become California’s next governor said Wednesday that two bills in the state Legislature are a critical bulwark to federal and local attacks on voting and must pass. — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bulwark
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bulwark
  1. protect
  2. rampart
  3. support
  4. embankment
  5. defend
  6. bastion
  7. framework
  8. safeguard
Verb
  • Switzerland, which has long remained neutral in international military conflicts, also moved to adopt a security policy on Friday that would protect itself from a future Russian attack.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The lawsuit also sought to block roving patrols making stops and arrests based solely on race, language and occupation, and to protect access to counsel rights for people in detention.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of protect
Noun
  • Join rangers and living historians of the Fort McHenry Guard for the morning flag change and help raise the Star-Spangled Banner o’er the ramparts of the historic star fort.
    — The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Sun, 8 Sep. 2026
  • There’s fighting in the streets, along the ramparts, hot oil poured on men climbing ladders.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of rampart
Noun
  • Vasil didn’t know what his teammates were planning and was clearly touched by the display of support.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Schoenmaker will oversee ReturnPro’s international corporate strategy and go-to-market approach, build its commercial organization and support mergers and acquisitions as the company develops its overseas business.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of support
Noun
  • How levees work Levees are earthen embankments positioned parallel to a river that effectively raise the height of the banks of the river to prevent overflow when the river swells.
    — Kaleigh Yost, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
  • As the road curved, Garcia went down an embankment and hit a tree at 101 mph, according to the district attorney's office.
    — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of embankment
Verb
  • Inputs divided by outputs established a unit-cost baseline that CFOs could optimize, benchmark and defend to the board.
    — Hemant Kapadia, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The Late Show’s last hurrah now that CBS has pulled the plug, giving Colbert one last trophy for a show that won’t be around to defend it next year.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of defend
Noun
  • The following year she was elected to the Italian parliament for the maverick Radical Party, a bastion of anticlericalism, civil libertarianism, feminism, liberalism and radicalism in Italy.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Daria served as the anti-Barbie, anti-cool kid, anti-corporate (though, of course, MTV…) bastion of hope in a culture that seemed increasingly removed from itself.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of bastion
Noun
  • Yet China itself has developed AI safety frameworks addressing autonomous agents and the risk of AI escaping human control.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Coach Saban focused his testimony on the importance of establishing a consistent national framework to end the current era of differing waivers and local rulings that has created uncertainty throughout college athletics.
    — The Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of framework
Verb
  • Leo also scrapped Francis’ plan to move parts of the Vatican’s secret archives and library off-site, ordering a new building inside the city-state to safeguard its trove of manuscripts.
    — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The two measures were among 13 bills Newsom enacted as a package designed to safeguard young people from technology seen as putting them at risk, including greater online privacy protection for minors.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of safeguard

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“Bulwark.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bulwark. Accessed 21 Sep. 2026.

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