1
as in defense
means or method of defending
measures taken to beef up our national security
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2
as in guarantee
something given or held to assure that the giver will keep a promise
their house will serve as security for the loan
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3
as in safety
the state of not being exposed to danger
after the burglaries, police presence in the neighborhood was enhanced to give residents a stronger sense of security
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Recent Examples of security
Washington wants to shore up Caribbean security ties, counter narcotics trafficking, and protect energy infrastructure (Trinidad is a major gas producer).
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Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
The video is standard on national security conference.
—ABC News, 26 Oct. 2025
The recommendation algorithm that has steered millions of users into an endless stream of video shorts has been central in the security debate over TikTok.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
These adjustable boards also offer newfound flexibility, scalability, and investor security for independent gym proprietors, helping to turn smaller cities and even towns of fewer than 50,000 people into viable climbing markets.
—Kelli María Korducki, HubSpot, 17 Oct. 2025
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Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
The video is standard on national security conference.
—ABC News, 26 Oct. 2025
The recommendation algorithm that has steered millions of users into an endless stream of video shorts has been central in the security debate over TikTok.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
These adjustable boards also offer newfound flexibility, scalability, and investor security for independent gym proprietors, helping to turn smaller cities and even towns of fewer than 50,000 people into viable climbing markets.
—Kelli María Korducki, HubSpot, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for security
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Their talks are expected to cover tariffs, regional security and Japan’s defense spending, all points of tension in recent months.—
Hanako Montgomery,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra Prabhat, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, is a tech and defense journalist.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Oct. 2025
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Rare earths, in particular, became a key sticking point, and earlier guarantees of a free-flowing rare-earth market never materialized.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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Other federal employees, though, didn’t even get a guarantee of any payment.—
David Lightman,
Sacbee.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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That's how people buy aviation—safety and cost.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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Crossbody Bag Make transporting your items and safety a priority with a reliable crossbody bag.—
Kristin Braswell,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
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Its criminal activities include drug trafficking, arms trafficking, protection racketeering, loansharking, and turf wars against other criminal organizations in the area.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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The fire activated the building’s fire protection sprinklers on the 12th, 13th and 14th floors, and the water caused a power outage, according to the fire department.—
Mara H. Gottfried,
Twin Cities,
29 Oct. 2025
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The Institute for Policy Studies’ 2025 report, The Giving Pledge at 15, highlights that Laura and John were the only participants technically in compliance with the pledge since signing in 2010.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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Over the past few months, the president has doubled down on his pledge of mass deportations, with escalating crackdowns in Latino neighborhoods in cities such as Chicago.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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Companies that host or enable these tools must now consider stronger safeguards and faster takedown systems.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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The extension can display the pop-ups since users must agree to give it permission to read and change data, although the software has been designed with safeguards to prevent user surveillance or excessive data collection.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Possession of ammunition without an FID card.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
25 Oct. 2025
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North Korea has sent soldiers, artillery ammunition and missiles to Russia to support Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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To better understand how these storms can wreak so much havoc, our research team created simulations to show how storms interact with Earth’s natural magnetic shield and trigger the dangerous geomagnetic activity that can shut down electric grids.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Oct. 2025
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The head shield, all of those tiles on the bottom, would be stripped off.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Security.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/security. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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