defense
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Its propulsion unit posted a roughly 13% organic rise in revenue, and its equipment and defense division logged nearly 16% growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The findings point to a previously unrecognized immune defense that could provide a new way to attack tumors that are notoriously difficult to treat.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
The two sides did not specify a value for the agreement, which comes as Pentagon seeks to strike multi-year deals to expand American weapons production and boost the US defense industrial base.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
As for the Jets, they can’t finish drives but their pass defense is tough.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
He told the defense team he would listen again to their argument for dismissal.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
The discovery suggests that proteins associated with youth may help preserve the brain's natural defenses as it ages.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
For now, the findings provide a promising new explanation for how a protein linked to youth helps maintain the brain's immune defenses, and how restoring it may recover some functions that weaken with age.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Once there, they can provoke inflammation and activate immune defenses in ways that worsen liver damage.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Now it is also short of defenses against jet-powered drones that can fly faster and higher than previous models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Then, on October 16, 1941, a Moscow radio broadcast announced that German tanks had broken through the Red Army’s defenses and were about to storm the city.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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
Gilman started all five games for the Chargers this season with 22 tackles and three 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
Then I may think myself to be Well recompensed, For wearing of the tree that is So well defensed Against all weather that doth fall When wayward winter spits his gall.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
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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