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• At the front gate, Kokteubai waited for Aynur under guard.
  — Ben Mauk, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2021
• He was placed under guard and escorted out the country for his own safety after the massacre.
  — Aron Heller, Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
• Liu Xiaobo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize while in prison, died of liver cancer while under guard in a hospital in 2017.
  — New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
• Two and a half weeks later, Gerson-Neeves said the box has constantly been occupied and under guard by at least one, sometimes two, of her cats.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2022
• On Election Night, when the votes are fully counted in a precinct, ballots and the key components of voting machines are driven under guard to City Hall.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• Eastman sent the email as Pence, who had been presiding in the Senate, was under guard with Jacob and other advisers in a secure area.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2021
• Padilla was at a hospital under guard Monday evening while being treated for a gunshot wound, police spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said.
  — CBS News, 27 June 2023
• Officers kept the apartment under guard until detectives returned later in the afternoon for a search warrant.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 8 Nov. 2021
• There are 43 enormous concrete and steel storage casks containing radioactive material under guard at the former Connecticut Yankee plant.
  — Hartford Courant, 20 Dec. 2022
• Young remained hospitalized under guard Friday, according to Dobbs.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
• The Rajco factory was closed and under guard, but dozens of other garment and small manufacturing plants — a mainstay of Pakistan’s modest export economy — were operating normally.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2021

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