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Adjective
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Back then, America feared an armada of Soviet bombers laden with A-bombs barreling over the horizon, dodging our few anti-aircraft batteries, and dropping their deadly payloads on undefended American cities.—
Barry Scott Zellen,
Hartford Courant,
22 Jan. 2026 -
Overall, the artist’s work feels honest and undefended.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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In those first days of sobriety, the part of yourself that has been scabbed over with substances for so long is finally exposed, shivery and unprotected, to life dead sober.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Among developed nations, Americans are uniquely unprotected.—
Teresa Ghilarducci,
Boston Herald,
18 May 2026
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But these jobs are also among the most susceptible to AI displacement.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
17 May 2026
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Other recommendations from the NFL include a request for the CFTC to create a unique certification process for contracts that are related to an individual player's performance or susceptible to manipulation.—
Davis Giangiulio,
CNBC,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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Last June, Postman found Fidel Castro’s government liable.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
20 May 2026
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The court agreed with the jury’s determination that Altman and OpenAI were not liable, and therefore claims of breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment are dismissed as untimely.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
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Spirit owes the Department of Treasury $136 million in an unsecured loan obtained during COVID-19.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
11 May 2026
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Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
9 May 2026
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Lowit had by that point gained renown and better paychecks for her intimate backstage candids of models and designers — an unguarded moment with Kate Moss done up for the runway, Jean-Michel Basquiat sitting stone still with his cigarette at the Palladium.—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
20 May 2026
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But the open-source tools available at the time were, in his telling, dangerously unguarded.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
20 May 2026
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Peter may be insecure about his own place in a world where only parts of it have room for him, but as a storyteller with an eye, Firstman is anything but.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
15 May 2026
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Yet even sprinkled in star dust, Hepburn still felt inadequate and insecure.—
Hadley Hall Meares,
Vanity Fair,
15 May 2026
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The outer layers of the star will eventually cool and disperse, leaving a nebula of ex-stellar material surrounding the sun's core, which will then become an exposed cooling stellar remnant called a white dwarf.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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The objective is to reduce exposed equity within the entity in a lawful and structured manner.—
Ascend Agency,
New York Daily News,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Assailable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assailable. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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