defense
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Domestic production of primary aluminum provides the foundational metal needed to produce the military-grade aluminum that underpins mission-critical weapons systems and defense equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Myles Garrett being placed on injured reserve threatens to transform what was expected to be a ferocious Rams defense into something much more tame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
He threaded passes into minuscule gaps in Ohio State’s zone defense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Centennial’s defense was top notch all night, only allowing two third-down conversions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
“My mother used to tell me that the best defense for anything is doing a good job.”
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
One protective function, for example, can involve increasing production of interferon, an antiviral signaling protein that helps coordinate immune defenses.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 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
We need to spend the money, even if imperfectly, on defenses against missiles, bioweapons and now AI agents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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
Confident that his wife was safe, President Madison had set off for Bladensburg to see the American defenses for himself and to raise morale among the troops.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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
Gilman started all five games for the Chargers this season with 22 tackles and three 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
In his first start of the season, Burns responded with five tackles and one pass defensed in 63 snaps.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 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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Set, Hut! Football Vocabulary
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Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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