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Example sentences for: cushion

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When Jodie Foster finally sets forth in the transport--read no further if you don't want to hear the movie's ending--she lands on a peaceful tropical beach thoughtfully provided by the aliens to cushion her culture shock.
Polysomal RNA was isolated from a detergent-generated supernatant on a 2 M sucrose cushion.
And now the country faces what is basically a garden-variety recession, the sort of thing that happens to every economy now and then--except that unlike the United States, or even a similar-sized First World country such as Australia, it cannot try to cushion the slump by lowering interest rates and pushing more money into the system.
The supernatant was layered on a 30% sucrose cushion and centrifuged at 245,000×g for 2 h at 4°C.
Also, other nations have decided that the potential risks of political interference can be managed and are outweighed by what those nations perceive as the risk of failing to save for the future or provide a cushion for contingencies.