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The memorandum, published in full by the Russian state news agency Tass, was less of a peace plan and more a demand for Ukraine to surrender, defang its military and become a vassal of Moscow.
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Keir Simmons, NBC news, 3 June 2025
With the Trump Administration’s desire to defang the agency through job eliminations and a stoppage of all work, Americans will lose a critical government agency, whose sole focus is to protect them.
—Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
Yet strangely, the killer robot girl who shimmied and stabbed her way into our hearts is defanged and watered down in her return.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 June 2025
The stormy fake-out in the Haydn’s first movement sounded defanged, and the finale rather polite.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
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Keir Simmons, NBC news, 3 June 2025
With the Trump Administration’s desire to defang the agency through job eliminations and a stoppage of all work, Americans will lose a critical government agency, whose sole focus is to protect them.
—Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
Yet strangely, the killer robot girl who shimmied and stabbed her way into our hearts is defanged and watered down in her return.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 June 2025
The stormy fake-out in the Haydn’s first movement sounded defanged, and the finale rather polite.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
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“Defang.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defang. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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