guards
Example Sentences
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A total of 376 officers -- border guards, state police, city police, local sheriff departments and elite forces -- responded to the massacre, a Texas state lawmakers' report said in July 2022.
From Barron's
“It was primarily about maintaining space offensively and I thought our guards did a great job creating for me ... especially in transition,” said Betts, who passed 1,500 career points in the Bruins’ 97-61 rout of Penn State on New Year’s Eve.
From Los Angeles Times
The Basij are a volunteer paramilitary force linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the ideological arm of the Islamic republic.
From Barron's
Downtown Dallas Inc., a nonprofit that supports the area’s economic development, provides additional security guards.
In August, a Miami jury ordered Tesla to pay $243m million in damages over a fatal 2019 crash involving Autopilot after finding, in part, that the company did not have adequate guards in place to track driver attentiveness or prevent the system from being used on unsafe roads.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.