defended
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"I'm not happy with how we defended that situation. It's something that we could have avoided, something that we had worked on during the week. To concede penalties is not good for us."
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
Nowhere is this more apparent than in his letters to Zola, who defended Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish-French army officer falsely accused of selling military secrets to the Germans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Speaking to AFP, YK Enerji defended the project by pointing to Turkey's energy security needs.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
Barrera defended the overall quality of public schools and advocated for expanding what works from successful campuses to those with poorer academic results.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
McKissick also defended the phrase, terming it an inevitable response to the “dashed hopes and mangled dreams of a people and a result of the ineffectiveness of the nonviolent movement.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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