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honor guards

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plural of honor guard

as in defenders

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OpenAI is also sharing its architecture and lessons from its previous sprint, along with a blueprint for empowering cyber defenders across industry and government.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
Johnson’s 15-yard run in the third quarter, a play during which five Denver defenders had a shot, was a big moment in a touchdown drive.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026

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Unreleased | Getty Images A spate of bomb threats against passenger flights has forced diversions, emergency landings and military escorts across European airspace this week, stoking fear among passengers and heaping pressure on airlines.

— Jenni Reid, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2026
Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi said the escorts were for flights from Brussels to the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, and from Prague to Cyprus and Romania.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026

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He was dressed in his campaign uniform of a Carhartt jacket over a tight black T-shirt and dark-wash jeans, and accompanied by his three bodyguards.

— Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2026
Godfrey proposes a pan-European fleet of orbital bodyguards patrolling clusters of European assets to ward off future Russian attempts to jam or damage the satellites.

— Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 27 Oct. 2026

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Stonier argued that many of the watches the runners were wearing Thursday have built-in heart rate monitors and that the monitor worn by Koch connected to an app that did not provide results until after the race.

— Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 5 Nov. 2026
Like other new Moto watches, the Watch Fit 2 runs on RTOS rather than Wear OS.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026

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Hegseth has justified those removals in the vaguest of terms, which has convinced most observers that the real reason amounts to little more than because these officers followed the lawful orders of the previous administration.

— Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2026
At the peak of the Taurid meteor shower, observers in areas with little light pollution can typically expect to see a modest 10 to 15 meteors per hour, Thompson said.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026

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