defense
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Instead, she missed a significant portion of the season while the team was simultaneously trying to fix the league’s worst defense from 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
But it identified no military fuel shortage, no defense customer waiting for the oil, and no mechanism ensuring that the oil would ever reach the military.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026
France plans to send soldiers, radar and defense systems to Saudi Arabia to help protect a refinery and crude-oil pipeline at the Red Sea port of Yanbu, French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
With so many factors that can put you at greater risk of fraud, the best defense is setting your own pace and taking control over your decisions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
The defense attorney had objected to the harsh penalty for a twelve-year-old’s first offense and requested a stay, which is the legal term for stalling.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
The actual number is likely higher because businesses aren’t required to report expenditures on drone defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
“Great defenses find a way to get off the field on third and fourth down,” Brown said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Just as sanctions hollowed out Iran’s defenses, they left the country’s economy brittle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Those molecules helped repair the gut lining, reinforce the intestinal barrier, increase the production of protective mucus and strengthen antimicrobial defenses instead of driving additional inflammation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Moments later, Peshawa slithered through the Fifteens’ defenses and fired a shot that clanged into the chain-link fence of the backstop.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
Over his career, he has 253 tackles and 17 passes defensed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 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
In his first start of the season, Burns responded with five tackles and one pass defensed in 63 snaps.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
The two rookies played well enough to keep the Rams out of the end zone all day, as Johnson got his first career interception and Valentine had three passes defensed.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 10, 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 John Ruskin
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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