The phrase "create a cushion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of providing a buffer or safety net, either literally or metaphorically.
Example: "To ensure financial stability, it's important to create a cushion for unexpected expenses."
Alternatives: "build a buffer" or "establish a safety net."
We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.
Is prior knowledge a kind of cheating, or does a look at the score or a visit to the rehearsal hall create a cushion of experience, something that makes new music more "understandable"?
Some of this air, though, would be diverted out of the sides through special skis, to create a cushion that would stop the pod touching the tunnel walls.Each pod would be launched by a linear-induction motor (such motors are also being tested for use as catapults on aircraft carriers), and booster motors every 110km would keep its speed up.
It has also accumulated hidden reserves to help fund expansion and create a cushion for economic downturns.
Perhaps you can squirrel some money away systematically during the good-cash-flow months to create a cushion that will undoubtedly be needed.
Of course those funds create a cushion (as well as generating income) but Wes feels there is a "psychological comfort" that comes from having a $500,000 safety net.
Vettel acknowledged that the Frenchman had created a cushion for him to take off into the lead.
Soon the 30-piece orchestra was doing what her harp cannot: sustaining chords and gliding between notes, creating a cushion of harmony, stirring up extra counterpoint, placing the songs in broader vistas.
The Flexpoint Radical from Head has two small holes on either side of the frame, creating a cushion effect that increases control and accuracy without sacrificing power-something akin to a very large, very accurate slingshot.
Now I know some of you might be thinking that the excess weight creates a cushion of safety.
Severing of all adhesions between the posterior capsule and the anterior hyaloid and creating a cushion of OVD behind the capsule-IOL diaphragm, which is only slowly resorbed, may serve as an additional protective factor.
