protectors

Example Sentences

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In the 1970s, the IBM uniform included short-sleeved white shirts with pocket protectors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026

"Thanks to his many protectors, he died peacefully of natural causes."

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026

"Microglia are not simply destructive responders in Alzheimer's disease -- they can become the brain's protectors," explained Anne Schaefer, the senior author of the research and leader of the project.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2025

“Great giants… thirty feet high” and big-headed protectors, the kilikis and zaldikos.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

They saw themselves as the only true protectors of the Southern way of life—that ill-defined but beloved social order which was under attack from all sides.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson