guard against
phrasal 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.
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Kuhr said he’s gone all the way back to McCoy’s tape from his days in Denver (2009-12, 2017) and San Diego (2013-16) to guard against the unknown of what the Titans’ offense might look like under his direction.
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Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
On top of earlier bans on the export of rare earth mining technology, Beijing last week also blocked any Chinese national from working for overseas rare earth facilities to guard against intellectual property transfer.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
To guard against undue optimism that the war in Europe would soon be over, the war correspondents stressed the difficulties that lay ahead.
—Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Leaving their minority poor communities in, this will be rocket fuel towards gentrification and nothing in SB79 guards against that, sadly.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
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Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
On top of earlier bans on the export of rare earth mining technology, Beijing last week also blocked any Chinese national from working for overseas rare earth facilities to guard against intellectual property transfer.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
To guard against undue optimism that the war in Europe would soon be over, the war correspondents stressed the difficulties that lay ahead.
—Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Leaving their minority poor communities in, this will be rocket fuel towards gentrification and nothing in SB79 guards against that, sadly.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Guard against.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guard%20against. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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