security guard
noun
: a person whose job is to guard a place (such as a store or museum) and make sure the people and things in it are not harmed
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The woman in the video tells the security guard she is contracted to receive medications only through this pharmacy.
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Christina Fan, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
Eddie then opens the paint can, splashes it onto the graffiti, and gets into an argument with the store security guard for making a mess in the parking lot.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
On Thursday, Lynch barricaded himself in an eighth-floor room at the hospital, cutting himself and taking an elderly man and a hospital security guard hostage, police said.
—Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2026
The man barricaded himself inside a room on the eighth floor with an elderly patient and a hospital security guard.
—Alexandra Koch , Michael Ruiz , Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
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Christina Fan, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
Eddie then opens the paint can, splashes it onto the graffiti, and gets into an argument with the store security guard for making a mess in the parking lot.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
On Thursday, Lynch barricaded himself in an eighth-floor room at the hospital, cutting himself and taking an elderly man and a hospital security guard hostage, police said.
—Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2026
The man barricaded himself inside a room on the eighth floor with an elderly patient and a hospital security guard.
—Alexandra Koch , Michael Ruiz , Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
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“Security guard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/security%20guard. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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