defense
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Chief Executive Kathy Warden said allied defense budgets were in the midst of a multi-year upswing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
On a call with investors, CEO Mary Barra noted that GM’s defense division recently notched several big contracts.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
In exchange, the member would add detailed language to the defense budget to fund the company’s work.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
“They’re already doing, I think, a lot of logical things—diversification of security partnerships and security defense equipment resources,” she said, also speaking in Doha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Soviet air defense had improved its weapons, but the American pilot would have to fly near enough to a missile base to give them a decent shot.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
By binding to molecules the fungus uses during infection, these regions help plants recognize the presence of an invading pathogen and activate their defenses.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Information on weak spots in Russia’s aerial defenses has helped Ukraine to guide drones and missiles to avoid interception, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
By engineering the natural immune defenses of plants, researchers have developed an experimental approach that could eventually help wheat, rice, and barley resist fungal infections more effectively.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
A more capable model might help the hospital secure its defenses before the attack succeeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Tyson helped the Hephaestus kids prepare the defenses.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
Over his career, he has 253 tackles and 17 passes defensed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
This is his sixth season, all with the Chargers, and for his career has five interceptions and 21 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
Leonard had 614 tackles, 32 for loss, 31 passes defensed, 17 forced fumbles, 15 sacks, 12 interceptions, seven fumble recoveries and one touchdown in 5 1/2 seasons with the Colts.
From Washington 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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