armor
Example Sentences
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For another, their armor protected their hulls against attack — the design rationale being that they would chiefly engage enemy vessels in battleship-to-battleship engagements — but their decks were susceptible to assault from the skies.
From Los Angeles Times
On the other hand, they say, the cash is a protective armor for Berkshire’s balance sheet.
In such a world, Ukraine is unlikely to stock up on the sort of expensive tanks and other armored vehicles that Western nations continue to buy, analysts say.
Nesbitt never anticipated, however, that the marketing strategy would involve his 10-acre polo field staging a medieval battle, complete with knights in suits of armor and a dragon flying overhead.
According to the researchers, this approach of creating many less-protected ants instead of fewer heavily armored ones proved to be evolutionarily successful.
From Science Daily
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