defended

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After a backlash, the administration defended the policy, saying it won’t prevent anyone who qualifies for a green card from getting one.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

The industry body representing flea treatment companies defended the use of preventive flea treatments as important for animal health.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

NASA's administrator Jared Isaacman on Wednesday defended the makeup of the space agency's latest Artemis crew, an all-male group.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

The idea being: This isn’t actually a real lawsuit, and in cases where the same kind of claims have been made, the IRS has defended those cases and asserted all sorts of defenses.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

Beneath their gaze, we have dug a trench to divide our peninsula from the island, that our encampment may be more agreeably defended.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson