armor
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The exercise showed that the U.S. may struggle to protect that armor as it moves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
It was time to shed my armor of judgment and negativity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Those digital models helped the team rearticulate, or correctly reconnect, the animal's skeleton and detailed dermal armor.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
Investigators searched the man’s home and found an “illegally modified AR platform rifle,” a pistol, magazines, ammunition and body armor, among other things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
True love was for fair princesses and maidens and knights in shining armor.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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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
So Tre armors himself, he goes about making himself indestructible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 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
As they became more and more mobile, they began to take on thick armors and breastplates and shells and calcareous skins to protect themselves from one another.
From Time and Change by John Burroughs
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
As I peppered him with questions about the pink car and the Brinks armored truck, he remained cagey while slowly yielding information.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
The exercising troops sent into battle heavy armored vehicles that threw up dust, making them easy for Ukrainian reconnaissance drones to spot, according to the participant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
They and the other dinosaurs — a T. rex, an armored ankylosaurus, a sight-gag-worthy giant snake — adapt to the 20th century as comfortably as coyotes, skulking through backyards in search of prey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Czernobog climbed onto an armored centaur, its face hidden by a metal helmet.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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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
Conducted without heavy machinery or other expensive equipment, it was also cost-effective compared with traditional methods of coastal defense, such as sea walls and coastal armoring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
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
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
Within, Catelyn found Brienne armoring the king for battle while the Lords Tarly and Rowan spoke of dispositions and tactics.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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