defender
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Iraola was not even born when former defender Thompson won the third of his three European Cups for Liverpool.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
He would become America’s leading conservative economist and the world’s greatest intellectual defender of free markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Ipswich Town are eyeing a move for Standard Liege's English defender Henry Lawrence, 24, who previously played for Chelsea.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Crystal Palace's move for Augsburg's 24-year-old French defender Chrislain Matsima has stalled and the Eagles are looking at other targets.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Michael had stayed long past the two years he had committed to us, but he was now scheduled to move to San Diego to start a job as a federal public defender.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Truman knew American invaders might have to face more than 900,000 defenders and 10,000 kamikaze planes on the southern island of Kyushu alone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
By the time Boyle danced past several bewildered defenders and made it 4-0, it seemed as though Hibs could do no wrong.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
I supported pulling more public defenders onto the bench, and I still think that overall, it has a lot of benefits.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
It made the idea of a clean, surgical war impossible to sustain and allowed the authorities to present themselves as the defenders of the Iranian people against foreign attack.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The engineers had built a stone fortress with an iron portcullis, guard towers, scorpion ballistae, water cannons, and no doubt many other nasty surprises for the defenders to use.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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