defense
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The U.K. engineering and defense company said Thursday that the interim buyback to February is part of a wider buyback of up to 9 billion pounds between this year and 2028.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Pete Hegseth on Thursday awarded a medal to a US soldier who reprimanded the defense chief and his entourage for laughing and talking near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier the day before.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
Jordan Love is having a great season, and the Packers’ defense is second in the league in takeaways with 19.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
Minnesota is miraculously 6-2, thanks to coordinator Brian Flores’s defense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
“And get to defense positions! We got a Grootslang on our hands!”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Both the U.S. and its allies in the region are starting to run short of interceptors for Patriot and Thaad systems, the main defenses against ballistic missiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
It all felt too fast and too wide-ranging to be human, trying to find holes everywhere in Railway’s defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
That means some of the incoming chairs of oversight committees have already been preparing for how to counteract the defenses that were thrown up last time.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026
Manipulating defenses and defending like he’s taken some slander personally.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
Every time I brought to mind a memory or thought and tried to put an invisible wall around it, my defenses crumbled, as flimsy as waxed paper.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Over his career, he has 253 tackles and 17 passes defensed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
Gilman started all five games for the Chargers this season with 22 tackles and three passes defensed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
He still finished with a season-high eight tackles, one for a loss, and the helmet-assisted pass defensed.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2023
As it was, his official stat line in Sunday’s 20-10 win over Arizona ended up looking like not much — three tackles and one pass defensed.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 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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