FORFENDING Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

forfending

verb

present participle of forfend

as in protecting

to drive danger or attack away from a place of refuge where the settlers could forfend themselves from attack

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The new mRNA flu vaccine is also an option, as it was found in one study to be 27% more effective at protecting against illnesses in older adults than a standard shot.

— Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Commanders at military bases and personnel protecting critical infrastructure often do not have the legal authority to destroy or degrade drones that illegally fly into their airspace.

— Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2026

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This week provides a major test for Houser and the offense with defending ACC champ Duke and defensive guru Manny Diaz coming to Champaign.

— The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
The office of the state attorney general is responsible for defending death penalty convictions on appeal.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026

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Those differing responses, paradoxically, hint at an underlying confluence of viewpoints – that safeguarding the growth and development of children and teenagers is not a one-and-done deal, left to individual court cases or settlements.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2026
Organizations must extend hygiene to AI systems by securing training data, confirming model integrity, safeguarding prompts and outputs, preventing model poisoning and adversarial attacks, and controlling how AI accesses company data.

— Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

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It is now widely accepted that the policy could have contributed to the far-right’s rise by shielding it from the accountability that comes when parties hold office and face the reality of governing.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026
These durable impact shields limit the minimum bending radius to prevent over-flexing while shielding the chain body from severe external abrasion.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of shielding

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Clingan has all the makings of a rim monster who could improve his technique guarding on the perimeter enough to make his drop coverage work in the postseason.

— Victor Wembanyama, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Instead of each broker guarding a separate list of properties, brokers shared information so buyers and sellers could find one another more easily.

— Tomas J. Philipson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026

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