defend
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Volkswagen Group increasingly has to defend its home turf at the same time as its business in China sinks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Meta is "confident in our record of protecting teens online and will continue to defend ourselves against claims that misrepresent the facts," Meta told AFP in a statement Thursday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
"If people want to stay and defend, they need to understand what that means for themselves, what that means for their family," Leverkus said.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
“Cyber threats do not stop at state lines, and no state can defend against them alone,” the governor’s office said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
All over the USSR, citizens raced to defend their Motherland.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
He explains his interpretive method and defends it against a hostile biographer—and his high-school English teacher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Defiant Tuchel defends decisions and says loss is 'scar we carry now'
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The Becket Fund defends religious liberty for people of disparate faiths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
They are only playing for pride now, but I don't think that will change their identity as a team which usually defends deep.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
“When he defends his title in 1975,” Rader added, “he’ll be much better able to capitalize financially.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Martin’s “Fire & Blood,” has been both panned and defended perhaps more than any other major television production in recent memory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Abbott’s spokesperson in a statement Friday defended the policy move as necessary because less than 10% of data centers responded to the state’s requests for them to report their power and water usage.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
The 48-year-old lawyer has defended underworld figures, among them Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman whom U.S. officials accuse of laundering money for then-Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The university had previously defended Arday but said Wednesday its probe was prompted by "new information", without specifying.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
But I could tell you this: The person who defended J.T. the most was Digger.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
The first shock was the crumbling of the defending champ Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, who showed early signs that she wasn’t her expected top form, and then withered sadly in a time-trial stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
It is said that defending a championship is harder than winning one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
"We are going to keep defending president Castillo," said Sheinbaum.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
June 2027: Should they not feature in the play-offs because of Uefa's boycott, European teams - including defending champions Spain - would not be able to participate in the Women's World Cup.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
And on they went, Mami accusing Papi and Papi defending himself.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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