guard against
phrasal verb
guarded against; guarding against; guards against
: to try to keep (something) from happening
Clean the wound to guard against infection.
That's the sort of thinking we have to guard against.
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Policies and regulation must guard against their malfeasance, and the public must be protected by intense regulation and report cards.
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Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
But at least some of that is their trying to guard against a greater, more devastating tragedy down the line by doing things that, in the moment, might be looked at as evil or criminal.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2024
Run Kingston’s software to set up a password or passphrase, use the virtual keyboard to guard against keyloggers, and rest assured the contents will be automatically erased after 10 wrong attempts.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2024
That implies that just as federalism guards against the tyranny made possible through overt centralization, federalism also has counterweights to prevent individual state governments from wrecking the whole.
—Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
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Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
But at least some of that is their trying to guard against a greater, more devastating tragedy down the line by doing things that, in the moment, might be looked at as evil or criminal.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2024
Run Kingston’s software to set up a password or passphrase, use the virtual keyboard to guard against keyloggers, and rest assured the contents will be automatically erased after 10 wrong attempts.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2024
That implies that just as federalism guards against the tyranny made possible through overt centralization, federalism also has counterweights to prevent individual state governments from wrecking the whole.
—Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Guard against.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guard%20against. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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