defense
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Before being dismissed, Syrskiy said he had elevated innovative young soldiers to top positions and that some changes to the military were the purview of the defense ministry, not his staff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Matar's defense lawyers said he never acted on behalf of any terrorist organization, even if he was angry about the blasphemous nature of "The Satanic Verses."
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
For a screen of U.S.-listed aerospace and defense industry stocks, we began with the components of three exchange-traded funds that track companies in related industries.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
The strikes targeted "Iranian military targets including maritime capabilities, missile and drone storage facilities, coastal surveillance sites, and air defense assets," it said.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
In my defense, I only say the thing I say next to stick it to Brademas.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
The subpoenas were issued after a Times report that the Qatari-gifted Air Force One lacked certain security countermeasures, including anti-missile defenses.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
The New York Times reported that the new plane lacked the same security countermeasures, including anti-missile defenses.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Iran has adapted to U.S. defenses, firing missiles that travel at extremely high speeds and can maneuver as they streak toward the earth, according to U.S. officials familiar with the attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
By the time they reached adulthood and became susceptible to Bd, their immune defenses were already well established.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
The transport sphere plowed along the trench, past all the fortified city’s defenses: walls, moats, machicolations, crossbow cannons, drawbridges, bristling spear pits, bladed gates, and giant mechanical grinders.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
Gilman started all five games for the Chargers this season with 22 tackles and three passes defensed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
This is his sixth season, all with the Chargers, and for his career has five interceptions and 21 passes defensed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
He had 32 tackles for loss, 15 sacks, 31 passes defensed, 12 interceptions, 17 forced fumbles and seven fumble recoveries.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
Jordyn Brooks was all over the field, generating nine tackles, two for loss, half a sack and a pass defensed.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2023
You know how it is said to Jeremiah, "Behold, I have made thee this day a defensed city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land."
From Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by Ruskin, John
It's also impossible not to look at the fact we could of and should have done a better job of defensing it.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2011
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Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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