protect
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the country first needs a credible electoral council, a free press and measures to protect voters from intimidation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
"We should of course always investigate plagiarism to protect academic standards," he wrote on Friday.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Mammals feed their young with milk, birds protect and maintain nests, and ants tend developing larvae.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
The airline might not have wanted to change, but had to in order to protect its margins.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
The school’s earthquake drills had taught him to protect his head and he did it the only way he could.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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No startup can afford to build the compliance department that protects Pfizer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The inner layer remains breathable; the outer one protects it from the ice pack and the inevitable little lake at the bottom of the cooler.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Constitution protects the right to freedom of speech.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
First, therapies must cross the blood-brain barrier, a tightly controlled network of cells that protects the central nervous system from substances circulating in the bloodstream.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
It seems Grandma is in that candle, and it’s Grandma who watches over and protects me and makes me feel happy again.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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One campaigner said: "If national parks are prepared to sell their very name to the highest bidder, then we're already on the path to industrial extraction of the most protected landscapes."
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
That alone isn’t why this show and others like it need to be championed and protected.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
By virtually all accounts, these precautions have meaningfully protected homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
“He believed that they should be protected as a sort of vanishing species. Well, that turned out to be madness, right?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
It was frightening now to see the walls disappearing—the walls that could have protected them from whoever or whatever was marching toward them.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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"As I was putting out the fire, I was only thinking about protecting the port and the lives of the people in Damietta," he told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Current public health recommendations generally emphasize reducing sodium as the primary dietary step for lowering blood pressure and protecting heart health.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
The FDA reviewers even claimed they are acting in patients’ best interest by protecting them from a drug that might not work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"What we all need to look at is how can we achieve that whilst looking after and protecting our natural environment," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
The 586th stayed based in Anisovka, protecting Saratov, until February 1943.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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