guard
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His security guard took the woman's phone away - a "standard practice" to protect their privacy, according to Barrientos.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
"We may have a new chairman, but the old guard is now worried about where the economy has moved since the beginning of the year," Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Three of its jobs were for “content security” to assess AI tools and guard against piracy, watermarking and rights-protection work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Authorities have been caught off guard by the scale and intensity of this year’s wildfires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
‘I told you, I don’t know. But we should be on our guard.’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Private security guards suppressed one protest, further sparking a succession of demonstrations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
McClendon, guards Kevin Dotson and Steve Avila and center Coleman Shelton are in the final year of their contracts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The findings provide early evidence that communication between neural circuits helps determine whether a worker bee nurses the queen, builds or guards the hive, or searches for food.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
He said he also provided a group of former veterans to be security guards for some of the bank’s branches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Knight and squire rode peacefully for a while, until they saw a gang of twelve chained men coming in their direction, with two guards in front and two in back.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
He guarded detainees at Guantanamo Bay, served as a civil affairs officer in Iraq and taught counterinsurgency classes in Afghanistan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
It arose either directly from species with no parental care or from species in which females already guarded the eggs.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Nguyen told AFP all he knows of his clients sent to South Sudan is that they're at "an undisclosed location" and "guarded by soldiers".
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
But its prognosis for victory would seem guarded at best.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Cerberus, the three-headed dog, guarded the doors, but if she gave him a cake he would be friendly and let her pass.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Much of the overtime money the department spent went instead toward preparing for unrest, monitoring protests and vigils, guarding hotels housing federal agents, and managing the public response to federal violence.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Specialist police officers have been seen guarding the building.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
As Thompson started mulling video cover letters, she signed a newly “Human Consent Registry” to try guarding her name, image and likeness against unauthorized AI use.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
The analysis showed that parental guarding behavior has not followed a simple evolutionary path.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
He’d spent all morning guarding a room that had already been robbed.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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