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honor guard

noun

Definition of honor guard

as in defender

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Recent Examples of honor guard The father of three exited AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center Thursday morning to applause from local officers and an escort from the honor guard. — Kerri Corrado, CBS News, 18 June 2026 The crowd did the same, and even a member of the Mexican honor guard was captured singing the anthem. — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 11 June 2026 The military funeral honors at a service will include an honor guard with at least two members of the military, one of whom will represent the decedent’s branch of service, the playing of Taps and the folding and presentation of one American flag to the next of kin, according to the VA. — Darleene Powells, Boston Herald, 10 June 2026 Xi later arrived at Pyongyang’s main square, where a military honor guard and thousands of people, including children carrying balloons and hopping, staged a welcoming ceremony. — ABC News, 7 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for honor guard

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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

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

And listen, a number of people went to the hospital for dehydration, including the bodyguard.

— Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
Set in the 1980s, the series will follow Marckinkus from his beginnings as Pope Paul VI’s unofficial bodyguard to his tenure at the helm of the Vatican’s finances.

— Ellise Shafer, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of bodyguard

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

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 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

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