defender
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Like when he somehow leapfrogged a defender while flying backward, a feat enshrined on the cover of the Madden NFL videogame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
She is a staunch defender of the Scandinavian country's famed welfare state, with an attitude that resonates with many Swedes, regularly topping opinion polls on the country's most trusted politicians.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
"A £4m defender is usually the last spot on FPL managers' benches but Lundstram was misclassified by FPL towers and was actually a box-to-box midfielder," says Woods.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Mistral, for its part, has been a staunch defender of open-weight models, saying they give users the flexibility to tailor them to their needs while protecting their data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Our attorney leaned over to whisper that the Griswalds would be assigned a public defender.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
We have seen De Zerbi's forwards in bigger spaces facing fewer defenders on numerous occasions this season already.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Manning has plenty of defenders, arguing that this a kerfuffle about nothing, that Manning is a college kid reacting like a college kid to a fake video of something that didn’t happen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Leny Yoro and Ayden Heaven looked like the inexperienced defenders they are.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Open models lag behind frontier labs by only a few months, driving down the cost for both defenders and attackers alike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Obviously the defenders never dreamed an assault would get this far.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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