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defense
noun as in armament; protection system
Strong matches
- aegis
- armor
- arms
- barricade
- bastille
- bastion
- bulwark
- buttress
- citadel
- cover
- deterrence
- dike
- embankment
- fastness
- fence
- fort
- fortification
- fortress
- garrison
- guard
- hard shell
- immunity
- munitions
- palisade
- parapet
- position
- protection
- rampart
- redoubt
- resistance
- safeguard
- security
- shelter
- shield
- stockade
- stronghold
- trench
- wall
- ward
- warfare
- weaponry
- weapons
noun as in explanation, justification
Example Sentences
Anyway, Bessent’s remark has been viewed as a tone-deaf defense of Trump’s unpopular economic policies.
This January, the British defense secretary, John Healey, accused Russian ships of spying on the location of undersea communication and utility cables that connect Britain to the rest of the world.
And even when Hayes is not scoring easy baskets, his rim-running has forced defenses to suck into the paint and create more open shots on the perimeter.
“We’ve clearly played strong defense,” he said in an interview earlier this year in the formal conference room outside his office days before Trump was inaugurated.
The defense team did not respond to a request for comment following Schleifer’s dismissal.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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