protectors

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Plus, gloves, helmets, elbow guards, leg protectors, arm sleeves, sliding mitts, cleats, turf shoes, the coolest sunglasses, Bruce Bolt batting gloves, fluorescent batting grips, socks, pants, belts and garments known simply as “ice-cream shorts.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

Local warlords allied to the military have been the principal protectors and business partners of the Chinese scam bosses, and have become very rich.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025

"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

Meryn Trant and Boros Blount, the king’s sworn protectors, were nowhere to be found.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin