defender
Example Sentences
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Handed just his second league start of the season, defender Niklas Suele created Dortmund's opener, drifting in a cross for Brandt to volley home 10 minutes in.
From Barron's
Rams defender Jared Verse jumped the route and knocked down the pass.
From Los Angeles Times
Although AI systems are still prone to falsely identifying problems, that development has some concerned that, without new tools, network defenders might now be put at a disadvantage.
He repeatedly beat his defender for driving layups, his aggressiveness an equal asset to his speed in rolling up 13 points on six-for-eight shooting by the game’s midpoint.
From Los Angeles Times
She quotes a passage from Aristotle, a defender of the doctrine of natural slavery, that refers to other, unnamed Greeks who disagreed with this view.
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