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defend

[dih-fend] / dɪˈfɛnd /




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Nvidia can defend its position by making its systems more valuable overall, including through performance, software support and reliability.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The acquisition comes as cybersecurity vendors scramble to expand their AI capabilities, both to defend against threats that use the technology and to safeguard corporate systems increasingly accessed by autonomous AI tools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

These receptors have played a central role in understanding how crops recognize and defend themselves against blast disease and other infections.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

The allegations against her are false, she said, and she won’t allow them to define her “decades of public service” and intends to “vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

“You don’t have to defend me, you know,” I added.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

The most recent tally from NGO Foro Penal, which defends political prisoners, said there were 344 such prisoners in the country as of September 18.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

“The key issue is whether the law truly forbids us from pursuing democratic transition and whether it really defends the Communist Party’s perpetual rule,” Chow, who represented herself, said in her closing statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

"And he defends me really well, but he can't go too far because if he goes too far, he'll get fired."

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

The administration defends its dealmaking as an economic boon in the long term.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

He calls me daughter, and defends me, and says he’s proud of me, and calls me pretty and smart—all the things I always wanted to hear from my own father.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

Gilbert, who married Busfield in 2013, has steadfastly defended her husband.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Since Weis defended his dissertation two years ago, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at record highs more than 50 times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday defended the approach, saying the Southeast Asian nation "has done everything we can" to engage neighbouring Indonesia on the issue.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Art of Play has defended how it treated the star, saying the wooden bird is permanently attached to the wall and is not for sale.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

“They grow where the wind dropped the ashes of burning Ilien, when Erreth-Akbe defended the Inward Isles from the Firelord.”

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Arizona also crept above the Rams in a division which features the unbeaten 49ers and defending champions the Seattle Seahawks.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

NRF2 plays an important protective role in cells by regulating hundreds of genes involved in defending against damage and maintaining normal cellular function.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

That’s when veteran outfielder Teoscar Hernández chimed in from the corner of the room with one more word to describe the two-time defending World Series champions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Plenty of people outside of the Dodgers’ downcast clubhouse Thursday evening saw the Brewers’ four-game sweep of the defending back-to-back champions as the fall of a dynasty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Germany was incapable now of defending itself, and the continuing Allied blockade of German ports was causing increasing misery.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman


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