armor
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The technology emerged from research focused on making military uniforms more resistant to mosquito bites and improving comfort for soldiers wearing body armor.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
For termites, it provides protective armor while also creating sturdy attachment points for muscles.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
As Marzio sang his only aria, summoning Farnace to war, he changed his outfit, making Farnace hand him armor pieces like a servant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Not every queer person watching has my armor, or my volume, or my stubbornness.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
It’s just the wrong kind of armor for this weather.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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With each of her characters, Nazarin included, Neshat gradually sheds their armors of self-possession and strength, their reserve and resolve, to reveal how fragile, scared and insecure they truly are.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
Minimalism-averse, Gutiérrez adores ornamentation, as the intricate armors and costumes showcased in “Maya” can attest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
Around the park’s Homestead entrance last week, hundreds of lubbers were splattered on the asphalt, their crushed orange armors gleaming in the sunlight.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 21, 2019
A majority of the 100 vehicles the company armors each year leave the United States for overseas clients.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2015
His fruits, flowers, armors, even his small marines and harbor pieces, are painted with one of the surest brushes of this century.
From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke
We’re likely to do some of each, but on the mitigation end of things, sea walls, rock revetments and armored cliffs are temporary fixes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
“The Beast is going faster than it has ever gone before,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, referring to the heavily armored presidential limousine.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Stellantis is in talks to sell its idled Toronto-area factory to Roshel, a local maker of armored vehicles, the WSJ’s Paul Vieira reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Trump, 80, is expected to take a ceremonial lap of honor in his armored limousine dubbed "The Beast" and then wave the green flag to start the race.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
The armored personnel carrier drivers were there to take them farther into the jungle and warned them about the intense action they’d been experiencing.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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“They’re armoring the shoreline with rocks and cement walls, sometimes without permits. And Quidnessett is the poster child.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Rodrigo Rivera, manager of Blindatek, a vehicle bulletproofing service, says he started armoring cars three years ago in response to requests from clients of his car accessories company.
From Reuters ● Apr. 25, 2023
“We need temporary armoring right now,” Kadara said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2023
Talk at the meeting centered on the best practices of the time: reconnecting the stream with some of its floodplains by reclaiming adjacent property, removing armoring and reintroducing native plants along the banks.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2022
The sadness was in her eyes too, but she was armoring it away, locking it into a box even as she spoke.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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