guards (against)

present tense third-person singular of guard (against)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guards (against)
Verb
  • Messages posing as highway-toll, postal-fee or delivery notices direct recipients to fake payment sites.
    Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • According to Wolff, not everyone who stops by for coffee notices them or chooses to engage, but many do.
    Diana Hubbell, Saveur, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The 11th Street Kids of Harcourt, John Economos (Steve Agee), Vigilante (Freddie Stroma) and Adebayo had already set out to rescue Chris from Earth-2, and Harcourt’s instincts as an agent who minds her surroundings picked up on the white supremacist haven almost immediately.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • So, tonight, this song goes out to a white man who watches [pornography series] Ghetto Gaggers and mocks Asian people on a podcast.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The wife ushers the two frightened boys behind her, and watches on helplessly as her husband screams in agony and terror, thrashing his arms and legs.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Guards (against).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guards%20%28against%29. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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