on defense
idiom
sports
: on the part of a team that defends the goal
She began the season on defense, but her coach later put her on offense.
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There are still problems on defense.
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Matt Hayes, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2025
The 209th overall pick of the 2018 Draft, Armstrong had eight tackles in 15 games as a Dolphins rookie, playing 268 snaps on special teams and 83 on defense.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
France fields about 376,000 personnel and spends nearly 55 billion dollars on defense.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
Third-pair ‘D’ The flip side of Johansson standing out from the pack on defense?
—Max Bultman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
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Matt Hayes, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2025
The 209th overall pick of the 2018 Draft, Armstrong had eight tackles in 15 games as a Dolphins rookie, playing 268 snaps on special teams and 83 on defense.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
France fields about 376,000 personnel and spends nearly 55 billion dollars on defense.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
Third-pair ‘D’ The flip side of Johansson standing out from the pack on defense?
—Max Bultman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
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“On defense.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20defense. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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