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Recent Examples of rear guardThe north was expected to be America’s rear guard, a place where values like democracy and women’s rights might have taken hold.—Azam Ahmed, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024 And assassins from a coalition of all the local indigenous tribes — out for blood over the murder of Jimmy the Creek, one of their own, last episode — slit the throats of Ming’s rear guard.—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024 General Fran Sigel was assigned as rear guard for forces moving through town.—Randy McCrory, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2023 The beefier, more robust rear guards would’ve cost an additional $127 each, according to industry estimates.—A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 13 June 2023 Striking then racing away as the Russian rear guard struggles to catch up.—David Axe, Forbes, 3 May 2023 The capelin rear guard, sensing danger, rose off the bottom in a great fleeing cloud.—Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 Indeed, Dnipropetrovsk has been a key rear guard for the Ukrainian military and National Guard.—Taras Kuzio, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2015
Abu Dhabi has New York University, Qatar’s Education City hosts Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, and Georgetown, and Dubai plans to open an outpost of the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school in 2027.
Ellis also says that the local is planning some coordinated action to protest Disney’s decision, including an informational picket to let the public know about its concerns, though nothing is set in stone quite yet.
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Katie Campione,
Deadline,
23 Sep. 2025
Curse words flew out of her mouth like closed fists, but no one could hear her because the picket is sound-proof.
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