defense
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The Dolphins’ defense was up to the task against Hamilton’s highly touted quarterback Thaddeus Breaux, intercepting two of his passes and sacking him four times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Among other sectors, spending on defense military programs increased by $48 billion, or six percent, over the year to $917 billion.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Alejandro Barraza, a criminal defense and immigration attorney, said he has witnessed the effect firsthand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Varonis specializes in securing sensitive corporate data and managing access controls, while Proofpoint primarily focuses on email protection and user-level threat defense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Passed in 1917, this law states that anyone who “willfully communicates or transmits” documents related to national defense to others who are not authorized to see them can be fined and/or sent to prison.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Because NLRs and TKPs appear to activate plant defenses through different mechanisms, using them together could create several layers of protection.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Nobody gets a quote on air defenses for a server farm unless the server farm has enemies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
The airline had five aircraft parked on the tarmac when the Houthi strike broke through Saudi air defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
But some fault will lie with the private sector for not safeguarding its defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
He’d been in East Anglia with contractors seconded to the army, building coastal defenses, which was why he was so late coming to the hospital.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
In his first start of the season, Burns responded with five tackles and one pass defensed in 63 snaps.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
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
Then I may think myself to be Well recompensed, For wearing of the tree that is So well defensed Against all weather that doth fall When wayward winter spits his gall.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
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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