defensive
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Artex earned notice in China in September when it won a contest sponsored by several Chinese tech companies to identify the top agentic AI system for offensive and defensive cybersecurity capabilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
He said that the best areas of the market during such a drawdown will be traditional defensive plays like food producers and sellers, pharmaceuticals and tobacco.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
With the hours ticking down to the closing ceremony, when Japan will hand over the baton to Doha, top officials were on the defensive.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
"She got straight into it, she wasn't defensive, she wasn't difficult, she wasn't cagey. She answered all of my questions quite articulately and quite open, to be honest."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
They lined up in front of Frank, putting their shields together in a ragged defensive formation.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
In general, do you have statistics on outcomes for forward defensives, cuts, drives, hooks, pulls, etc?
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Instead, they say the best way to think about the market is just to group all sectors into three buckets — cyclicals, defensives and growth.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
The AI boom has ensured it hasn’t, yet defensives should eventually see a catch-up trade.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025
Aaron Donald and Ernest Jones IV are gone, so Rams had big defensives plan when they drafted Florida State front disrupters Jared Verse and Braden Fiske.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2024
Few realize how important a role sound plays in what might be called the defensives of our every-day life.
From The Sign at Six by Stewart Edward White
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