defense
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Sure enough, defense stocks soared, with the sector rising 10% in the week after the 1980 election to end the year up 24%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
Despite these remaining challenges, the findings offer valuable guidance for future planetary defense efforts.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
We need to ensure a strong economic rebound from years of active combat and make the most of the global technology and defense industrial booms under way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
These calculations are important because a successful planetary defense mission would ideally change an asteroid's trajectory without breaking it into multiple dangerous fragments.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
Teacher seemed to agree with Neel’s silent defense.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
Manipulating defenses and defending like he’s taken some slander personally.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
In an attempt to rescue one of the NFL’s worst defenses, they traded a 2026 second rounder and the better of their two 2027 firsts for Jets lineman Quinnen Williams last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Centcom has laid the groundwork for broader strikes, including moving more missile defenses and munitions into the region in recent weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Derek Tisler, counsel and manager for the elections and government program at the Brennan Center for Justice, said the federal government’s absence has weakened the defenses.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
“It washes away all enchantment, all magical concealment! They know there are impostors in Gringotts, they have set off defenses against us!”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
Sneed had two interceptions and 14 passes defensed in 16 games last season, giving him 10 interceptions and 40 passes defensed in his four-year career.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
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
Then I may think myself to be Well recompensed, For wearing of the tree that is So well defensed Against all weather that doth fall When wayward winter spits his gall.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
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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