honor guards

noun

plural of honor guard
as in defenders

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  1. defenders
  2. escorts
  3. bodyguards
  4. watches
  5. observers
Noun
  • Below, Nico O’Reilly is on the goal line at the far post, away from the eye line of the opposition defenders, who are preoccupied with his team-mates.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 14 July 2026
  • Despite handwringing from the powers that be, genre defenders argued that was a literary history behind Sky of Love and its contemporaries.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
Definition of defenders
Noun
  • He was also transported to an area hospital along with two police escorts, the arrest reports said.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026
  • The Times has filed two lawsuits over a policy requiring journalists to be accompanied by escorts at the military complex.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
Definition of escorts
Noun
  • All eyes on the Crab Rodríguez Castro entered through the back door of El Antojo restaurant in Old Havana several days later, flanked by bodyguards.
    — Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • Members of the Jalisco cartel have been charged with orchestrating the attack and several of Manzo’s bodyguards were arrested for possible participation.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
Definition of bodyguards
Noun
  • Anna Rose Layden / Getty Images In the Southwest, extreme heat watches cover parts of Arizona and California, including Phoenix and Tucson, and go into effect Tuesday through Thursday.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 5 July 2026
  • Other states with extreme heat warnings included Tennessee, Indiana and Kentucky, with extreme heat watches issued for southern California and southwest Arizona.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 4 July 2026
Definition of watches
Noun
  • Industry observers view the DOE licensing agreement as an important milestone toward evaluating the commercial viability of the process.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
  • While the conflict has thus far been driven by advances in aerial drone technology, many observers predicted that the next major battlefield innovation would be the widespread employment of ground robots.
    — Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of observers
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“Honor guards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honor%20guards. Accessed 19 Jul. 2026.

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