a fence-like structure around a deck
Used in a Sentence
bulwarks
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for bulwarks.
Editorial note
The conversation is shifted to a slightly different topic at this point, but going back to the NIH and the NSF, they aren’t exactly democracy’s bulwarks.
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Quick take
a fence-like structure around a deck
Meaning at a glance
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for bulwarks.
noun
a fence-like structure around a deck
Example sentences
The conversation is shifted to a slightly different topic at this point, but going back to the NIH and the NSF, they aren’t exactly democracy’s bulwarks.
In previous years they saw Chrome and Firefox as combined bulwarks against IE's dominance of the browser market.
Massive super-states: bulwarks of peace, clean living and respect for both the individual and their local cultural groups...
The bulwarks of our freedom are in the courts, the ballot box, and in the enumerated Bill of Rights.
It protects the fortress, calculating the smallest possible modification to its bulwarks that can account for the new fact.
Single consumers are what western capitalism is strongly optimized for, and the cultural bulwarks have basically collapsed.
But if you expect those agencies to be loyal and high-functioning bulwarks of your nation's security...um, so sorry, no.
You mean one of the least confrontational bulwarks.
EVs might be one of the bigger bulwarks the US could pursue toward greater national security.
Remember conservative bulwarks Jesse Helms and Trent Lott both started out as staffers for Democrats.
I'm not crazy about a campaign against one of the remaining bulwarks against an increasingly oligopolistic internet.
US+Israel already have set up rich middle east countries as bulwarks.
Quote examples
Even as much as "the smallest possible modification to its bulwarks that can account for the new fact" is atypical.
Far more often than that, the new fact is either elided from consciousness or ejected by the mental equivalent of antibodies, and the "bulwarks" remain as they were.
(Though the crashiness of late System 7 probably helped to loosen emotional attachments to the Mac as well.) In fact the Mac had famous bulwarks of continued demand in the institutional education market and among graphics and other "creative" professionals.
As madison wrote, "The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable", I wonder if he could have imagined the newly formed government would wander this far...
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use bulwarks in a sentence?
The conversation is shifted to a slightly different topic at this point, but going back to the NIH and the NSF, they aren’t exactly democracy’s bulwarks.
What does bulwarks mean?
a fence-like structure around a deck
What part of speech is bulwarks?
bulwarks is commonly used as noun.