PROTECTIONS Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

protections

noun

plural of protection

as in safeguards

means or method of defending this small umbrella is adequate protection in a sudden shower

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as in defenders

someone that protects the bodyguard was her protection from overzealous fans

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Recent Examples of protections Other protections like trip delay reimbursement, baggage delay and trip cancellation/interruption coverage can free you from needing to purchase third-party insurance at checkout. —

Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 16 June 2026 By unionizing, the group is additionally endeavoring to ensure greater job protections, more transparency about pay and promotion standards, and have more of a say in the corporate environment. —

Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026 However, the arrival of commercial quantum computers will crash encryption protections if they are not upgraded. —

Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 16 June 2026 From the wreckage of the industrial revolution came labor protections, Social Security, Medicare and worker health benefits because citizens demanded intervention against unchecked economic power. —

Tom Debley, Mercury News, 16 June 2026 Protected funds may receive additional review Certain types of funds receive special legal protections under federal or state law. —

Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 15 June 2026 Indeed, the right to repair movement reflects, in part, public disappointment that the government has failed to serve as a watchdog amid misleading corporate claims about warranty protections. —

Wayne Fu, The Conversation, 15 June 2026 The vulnerability is a local privilege escalation, meaning it can be chained to a separate vulnerability to give users or processes with low-level privileges the ability to defeat OS protections and gain full SYSTEM rights needed to install malware. —

Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026 Becerra, 68, came up in Los Angeles politics in the 1980s and has long supported policies to expand protections and resources for immigrants with or without legal status. —

Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026

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Topline Web traffic for Claude is on a major upswing, apparently siphoning some traffic from competitor AI chatbots, as Anthropic prepares an initial public offering and releases a version of its powerful Mythos model to the public, albeit with safeguards.

— Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
However, new safeguards quickly frustrated AI researchers, who accused the company of intentionally lobotomizing Fable 5.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 11 June 2026