shield

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The head shield carried six pairs of appendages used for feeding and sensing.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Earlier this month, presidential spokesman Prasetyo Hadi said the government was seeking to set aside as much as 80 trillion rupiah to shield its economy from the Middle East fallout, without disclosing further details.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

The First Amendment, he concludes, “stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

“But the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.”

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

She’d hang a cloth cockpit cover on one side of the wing to shield her aircraft’s pilot and navigator from the wind.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein