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Recent Examples of defensives
There remains a rotation underway – financials over tech , value over growth , defensives over high-beta stocks – simply not enough to hold the indexes harmless.
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Michael Santoli, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025
Michael Santoli, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for defensives
Noun
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Stipends and guards are temporary dressings on a chronic wound.—
Noo Saro-Wiwa,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026
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Witten Van Hoy, Wesley Harvey and Samir Camacho all stood out physically and will have a chance to compete with some older veterans like transfer guards Jaheim Buchanon and Noah McKinney.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Bus operators and conductors are lookouts for first responders and are on the scene before emergency personnel arrive.—
John Samuelsen,
New York Daily News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Viewers also go up into the crow’s nest – the lookouts’ point of view – and into the lifeboats.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Defensives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defensives. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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