defend
Example Sentences
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You’ll have spent a few years building cash, a brokerage account and a financial plan you can defend.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
Wickline certainly doesn’t need me to defend her.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
“Would you go to a doctor that used AI throughout all of medical school? Would you hire a lawyer to defend you who used AI to take the bar exam?”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
"We are fully prepared to defend the Vice President before the Senate sitting as an Impeachment Court," it said.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
“And you came down here to defend me with a piece of wood.”
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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Vocabulary lists containing defend
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Veterans Day Vocabulary
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 5
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