protect
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District Court for the Southern District of New York, accuses the university of failing to protect pro-Palestinian students from attacks by external groups and of subjecting those students to unnecessary scrutiny and discrimination on campus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“We need to do everything we can to protect these important jobs in California’s iconic industry.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Some may argue that witholding your own wealth to protect an inheritance at the expense of the public purse is wrong.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
“Homeland isn’t really an American word; it’s not something we used to say or say now. It has a vaguely Teutonic ring — We must help ze Fuehrer protect ze Homeland!”
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
The men in front of me had to be part of the secret society called the Sons of Liberty that was formed to protect the rights of the colonists from British taxation.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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Rather than focusing only on killing cancer cells directly, the strategy is designed to alter the surrounding environment that protects them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
“Decommodification,” the Burning Man Project says, protects its culture “from being leveraged to promote, support or market a person, product, company or any kind of commercial endeavor.”
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
The act protects endangered species from people who might intentionally kill or try to destroy their habitat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Against those who would have their victims die once in the flesh and a second time in the memory of mankind, he installs the archive and protects the truth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
I go to the lean-to that protects our firewood from rain and snow, and stack the heavy pieces of wood in my arms.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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"We can't see these protected areas as islands and expect them to be functional in the long term, we need to think much broader than that," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Although saltwater crocodiles have been legally protected there since 1973, their numbers have shown no measurable recovery.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
So too in Massachusetts, where “the right to clean air and water’ has been constitutionally protected since 1972.”
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Jigsaw hit back in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, saying scrutiny of powerful public figures is protected by the First Amendment.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Moreover, a spatial teleportation scientist from the twenty-second century is not immune or protected against infections of the past.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Materne also pointed out that cybersecurity vendors are expanding partnerships with AI labs, particularly for run-time security, which involves protecting actively running systems.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
“We are deeply concerned about the allegations and remain focused on protecting the safety of our students,” the statement read.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Oxalate intensified inflammatory responses in macrophages and dendritic cells, immune cells that play important roles in protecting and regulating the intestine.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
The strike resulted in the first U.S. deaths since an April ceasefire, and exposed the difficulty of protecting U.S. forces even at a heavily defended installation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
I wanted to be reminded, often and obviously, that the world needed protecting from people like Claire, and it needed me to protect it.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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