as in protecting
to drive danger or attack away from
vowed that he would take whatever measures were necessary to ward the nation's people
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This is not a choice between protecting the ocean and growing the economy.—
Olivier Wenden,
Fortune,
14 Oct. 2025 -
In June, the Department of Justice sued California for not repealing a decade-old anti-discrimination law protecting transgender students and subpoenaed medical providers for lists of youth patients receiving gender affirming care.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Airborne and amphibious warfare are key capabilities for defending Japanese islands beyond the four main islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu—as they are designed to project forces from the sea and air to retake islands occupied by an enemy.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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Barry has spent 26 years handling Hatch Act cases, defending both Republicans and Democrats.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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So there’s a risk in assuming that there’s somebody guarding the gates and that the technology will only go so far.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Oct. 2025
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Signs of sass becoming a problem include growling or snapping, guarding objects, ignoring basic commands persistently, or biting and destroying items.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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These treatments aim to create a renewable source of beta cells or to help maintain existing beta cells by shielding them from the immune system or enabling them to evade it.—
Tara Haelle,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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The court noted that about half of states have laws shielding a person exercising lawful self-defense from criminal liability for the death of an innocent bystander.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
14 Oct. 2025
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Dozens of experts met at a two-day conference on engineering and safeguarding synthetic life in Manchester, UK, in September to discuss where red lines should be drawn to restrict research into technologies that could enable the creation of mirror organisms.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
17 Oct. 2025
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There is safeguarding and aftercare.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Warding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warding. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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