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defend

[dih-fend] / dɪˈfɛnd /




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“The best thing I can come up with is, ‘Know your worth and defend it,’” Hinojosa said in an interview.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

And he said that Apple only needed to be “good enough in AI to defend the iPhone ecosystem.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026

The Israeli military has also used them in recent years to defend against FPV drones used by Lebanon’s Hezbollah and militants in Gaza.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Despite their unusual behavior, experiments showed that bacteria carrying type VI retrons could still defend themselves against phage infections.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Where was the Boaz that was ready to punch out a guest to defend her?

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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 Puerto Rican defends her WBA and WBO featherweight titles against Argentina's Lucrecia Manzur on Friday in California, in the first world championship boxing event to be streamed live on TikTok.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

I say, then, that the armies with which a prince defends his state are made up of his own troops, or mercenaries, or auxiliaries, or of mixed troops.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

He defended and fought for the team, getting the job done.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Huang has defended the approach, arguing that frontier AI labs are the first generation of startups that need tens of billions of dollars to get started, not just millions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Jayawardhana defended the decades-old partnership between higher education institutions and Washington, which pours billions of dollars into research universities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Confirming student competence in the AI era requires redesigned assessments, supervised demonstrations, oral exams and defended portfolios.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

In a heated discussion with King, Carmichael defended the phrase.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

"Between the boxes we do OK, but we're not ruthless enough going forward or defending our own box."

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Carson High, the defending City Section football champion, received the No. 1 seed for the Open Division when the playoff pairings were announced on Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

The day Israel voted in its consequential election this week, Kalshi Chief Executive Tarek Mansour was in Midtown Manhattan defending the accuracy of his platform.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Navy that is largely succeeding in defending American interests in the Strait of Hormuz?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

It expands to encompass an entire but still-emerging world that Burr threatened and Hamilton believed himself to be defending.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis


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