guard against

verb

guarded against; guarding against; guards against

: to try to keep (something) from happening

Clean the wound to guard against infection.

That's the sort of thinking we have to guard against.

Examples of guard against in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Still, people who closely track the financial flows underlying AI say that even sharper losses by Nvidia likely wouldn't trigger the kind of systemic problems that regulators guard against. — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 11 Nov. 2026

To guard against overreach, behavioral benchmarking could be limited to areas with overwhelming scientific consensus, such as smoking cessation and childhood vaccination. — Jessica Fishman, STAT, 10 Nov. 2026

Clear rules can preserve those responsibilities while guarding against the use of research funds as political rewards or punishments. — Carole Labonne, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026

Presidents and their advisers have always had to guard against confirmation bias, our tendency to interpret evidence in light of our pre-existing beliefs and to under-weigh or dismiss facts that point to the contrary. — Keren Yarhi-Milo, Time, 8 Nov. 2026

Rhymes for guard against

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• fenced
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• tensed