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defender

[dih-fen-der] / dɪˈfɛn dər /
NOUN
champion
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"I think that finding his role and position has been challenging," former Arsenal and England defender Matt Upson said.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

This runoff for a vacant seat on the bench features a longtime public defender running against a veteran alternate public defender.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

“It’s part of the process, part of the plan,” defender Emily Fox told reporters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

That was largely based on him saying Netherlands defender Matthijs de Ligt was "fit and ready" after 11 months on the sidelines with the back injury that required surgery in May.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Anyway, I swung my leg back to kick, but the ball went rolling right under me, through my legs, to the other Palmetto defender, who cleared it away.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor

The UN experts included the special rapporteurs on the right to freedom of opinion; on the independence of judges; on freedom of peaceful assembly; and on human rights defenders.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Clayton is in charge of the Inglewood branch of the public defenders office and has defended three cases with life sentences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Tore Andre Flo was a menace for Premier League defenders not merely because of his tall, gangly frame but for the silky touches the Norwegian often showed with his giant boots.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

A handful of defenders noted that the new press secretary had only a day to get ready for her debut.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

For an example of a trivial sense, suppose the defenders of Ptolemaic astronomy had responded to the threat posed by Copernicanism by simply renaming the sun ‘the earth’, and the earth ‘the sun’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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