defense
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A finding may be rigorous, important and worthy of defense without being the final word.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Canada is eyeing ways to informally lock into Europe’s $21 trillion market so goods, services and workers in strategic industries like energy, AI and defense can move frictionlessly across the Atlantic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
In his closing argument, defense attorney Brian Steel painted Hester, Jones and Grant as unreliable “snitches, cooperators, rats” seeking to secure a lighter sentence by implicating Banks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Researchers also found substantial overlap between genes associated with aging and genes involved in disease defense, suggesting that studying one process could help explain the other.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
The clinic was the second line of defense.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
That evolutionary mismatch between bat and human immune defenses could help explain why some viruses that move from bats into people can cause serious zoonotic diseases.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
We began working through basic hapkido hand techniques, defenses designed to control an attacker through redirection of force.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
You can see something similar in the body politic, when the sudden appearance of something new and confusing kicks societal defenses into overdrive.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Canada offered support Thursday to boost Ukraine's air defenses and help replenish its drone stocks, as the countries pledged to deepen their alliance during a visit by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The kindly centaur’s face seemed to age thirty years during the course of their conversation, but he assured them he would see to the defenses of the camp.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Over his career, he has 253 tackles and 17 passes defensed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
This is his sixth season, all with the Chargers, and for his career has five interceptions and 21 passes defensed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
Kendricks had 117 tackles, seven tackles for loss, 3 1/2 sacks and six passes defensed last season for the Chargers.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
He had 32 tackles for loss, 15 sacks, 31 passes defensed, 12 interceptions, 17 forced fumbles and seven fumble recoveries.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 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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