Thesaurus results for BODYGUARD

bodyguard

noun

Definition of bodyguard

as in guard

a person or group of people whose job is to protect someone They entered the building surrounded by bodyguards.

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Recent Examples of bodyguard Harvin, who also lived in Washington Heights, had been accompanying Billini on her walks with Zeus for the two or three weeks before the killings as an informal bodyguard, according to friends and family. — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 23 Sep. 2026 De Paul, who is dubbed Messi’s bodyguard, is now overplaying the part. — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 Due to his military background and imposing stature, he was eventually hired as a celebrity bodyguard, protecting big names like Muhammad Ali, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, and Steve McQueen. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Sep. 2026 Kavanaugh wrote an opinion in 2012 overturning the terrorism conviction of a driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bodyguard

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Noun

But with the Heat in search of offense and outside shooting, Heat rookie guard Ryan Conwell was called on to play the first meaningful minutes of his NBA career.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2026
His coronation signaled where the genre was headed—away from the pleading old-guard types and toward a more fluid, hardcore hip-hop hybrid.

— Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of guard

Noun

That cost difference matters because defenders can deploy one-way attack drones in large numbers, potentially forcing them to expend valuable missiles against comparatively inexpensive targets.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
Emmanwori was the defender in pursuit of Worthy when the receiver dropped a pass that would have resulted in a first down early in the fourth quarter.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of defender

Noun

Parents or guardians must still claim and activate those accounts before managing them.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
All the accounts of her story agree that this young heiress, named Maria de Lourdes Fernandes, witnessed the deaths of her parents; her guardian then locked her up and drove her to suicide to get her inheritance.

— Marcus Librizzi, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of guardian

Noun

The equipment could help the aircraft interfere with enemy radar without relying entirely on dedicated electronic warfare escorts.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2026
Two off-duty cops hired as escorts lost sight of the trailer after an unmarked sedan struck their car and forced the cops to stop as the trailer drove on.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of escort

Noun

The new team will focus exclusively on traffic enforcement, allowing officers to concentrate on violations that regular patrol officers might not have time to address, Salgado said.

— Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026
When Buchanan requested a return to patrol in 2012, his discomfort increased.

— Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of patrol

Noun

On the way back, a vehicle in the convoy veered off the road and fell into a ravine.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Future of separatism Keith Wilson, another Alberta independence leader who was lead counsel for the 2022 convoy organizers, said separatists see the vote as a way to give Alberta more leverage in dealing with Ottawa, even short of independence.

— Rob Gillies, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of convoy

Noun

In Sacramento, workers gathered at picket locations and then marched together towards the Capitol Annex Swing Space while yelling chants and holding signs.

— Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Students sitting with arms linked at the elbows could only see in shards through a picket of shin guards, restricting their view of the area where classmates and roommates were dragged one by one and zip-tied face down on the spring grass.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

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