defense
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“Red-zone defense and how that equates. If you look at the top teams in the country over the last several years, typically the top red-zone defenses equal out with that; like, it’s the same teams.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Now if USC has any hope of making the playoff under Riley, it needs its defense to at least be among the best in the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
In defense of the company’s approach, Apple has “rarely been first” in rolling out new technologies, Cook said in an all-hands meeting last year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
The defense contractor’s shares have had a punishing year amid headlines that don’t hurt its solid fundamentals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
“And get to defense positions! We got a Grootslang on our hands!”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
“But that’s how things have progressed, and the development of technology will always outpace the development of defenses against the undesirable effects of technology,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Yale researchers have previously shown that people who followed moderate calorie restriction, cutting calorie intake by 14% for two years, developed stronger immune defenses without experiencing problems related to growth or reproduction.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
He asked Feaster, then barely 12, to explain the difference between cover-2 and cover-3 defenses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Military leaders have said they need more hypersonic weapons capable of zipping through enemy defenses to match China’s growing arsenal of similar missiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Another new invention, as simple as it may seem, became essential to the defenses of both sides.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Over his career, he has 253 tackles and 17 passes defensed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
This is his sixth season, all with the Chargers, and for his career has five interceptions and 21 passes defensed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
He had 32 tackles for loss, 15 sacks, 31 passes defensed, 12 interceptions, 17 forced fumbles and seven fumble recoveries.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
Devon Witherspoon again made plays all over the place, including the early sack and a pass defensed, and eight tackles overall.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
You know how it is said to Jeremiah, "Behold, I have made thee this day a defensed city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land."
From Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by John Ruskin
It's also impossible not to look at the fact we could of and should have done a better job of defensing it.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2011
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Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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