bulwarking

verb

present participle of bulwark
as in protecting
to drive danger or attack away from vowed to use any means necessary to bulwark the country against attack

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Recent Examples of bulwarking In 2025 Trump declared a National Energy Emergency aimed at bulwarking the coal industry. — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 4 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bulwarking
  1. protecting
  2. defending
  3. safeguarding
  4. shielding
  5. guarding
Verb
  • This is more than a sophisticated arms race aimed at repelling threats and protecting borders.
    — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Con, where the company is to demonstrate how its offerings are protecting businesses from agents going rogue, like the situation where an OpenAI model hacked into a company looking for answers on how to solve a problem in the test environment.
    — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of protecting
Verb
  • The new Indiana quarterback was a three-year starter at TCU and now takes over the defending champs.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Clark, a second-round draft pick by the defending Super Bowl champions, was injured on Seattle’s first defensive snap in a 19-16 loss to the Tennessee Titans in Nashville.
    — Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of defending
Verb
  • Organizations must extend hygiene to AI systems by securing training data, confirming model integrity, safeguarding prompts and outputs, preventing model poisoning and adversarial attacks, and controlling how AI accesses company data.
    — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Unlike JPMorgan or Club name Wells Fargo , whose core business is collecting deposits and issuing consumer and commercial loans, BNY’s main focus is servicing, safeguarding and moving financial assets for institutions.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of safeguarding
Verb
  • Sheinbaum has denied shielding Rocha Moya but rejected Washington’s request to arrest and extradite the defendants without credible evidence, insisting that any prosecution take place in Mexico.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Las Vegas — Under a canopy shielding them from the desert sun that pushes temperatures to nearly 110 degrees, Las Vegas tourists rode zip lines down Fremont Street.
    — Andy Rose, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of shielding
Verb
  • For weeks, migrants in the Spanish territory of Ceuta had gathered on a beach away from the city center, sleeping on cardboard sheets, under reed huts and guarding their few possessions in tattered plastic bags.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • World Liberty is celebrating the major milestone, while critics worry this is a new wrinkle on the classic case of the fox guarding the henhouse that will give corporations and foreign actors a new way to stealthily curry favor with the White House.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of guarding

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“Bulwarking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bulwarking. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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