as in guardian
someone that protects
the quarterback counted on the right guard as his main protector
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Recent Examples of protector
As protectors of employees’ personally identifiable information, your department is responsible for ensuring confidentiality, privacy and security.
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Fran Maxwell, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Casper is also offering 35% off bundles, with The One mattress, a mattress foundation, and a waterproof mattress protector.
—Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Dec. 2024
Right now, almost everything is on sale, including Spigen screen protectors.
—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
At a moment when Xi is positioning China as protector of globalization in the Trump 2.0 era, India fending off questions about murky corporate governance practices and credit rating companies demanding answers is quite the split-screen.
—William Pesek, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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Fran Maxwell, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Casper is also offering 35% off bundles, with The One mattress, a mattress foundation, and a waterproof mattress protector.
—Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Dec. 2024
Right now, almost everything is on sale, including Spigen screen protectors.
—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
At a moment when Xi is positioning China as protector of globalization in the Trump 2.0 era, India fending off questions about murky corporate governance practices and credit rating companies demanding answers is quite the split-screen.
—William Pesek, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for protector
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Parents or guardians can complete claim forms for those under 18.Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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But now board members will at least consider a guardian program.Steven Walker, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2024
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Athletic defenders and — outside of interior defensive linemen — guys with the ability to play in space.Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2024
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In mid-November, the president-elect picked oil and gas industry veteran Chris Wright, a stalwart defender of fossil fuels, to lead the Department of Energy.Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2024
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Each chapter is devoted to a different custodian whom the author visits personally, incorporating his own experiences in a clear and evocative style that puts us right in the story with him.Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024
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This included butch lesbians, who were often drawn to blue-collar jobs for which key rings were essential, such as being a custodian, a postal worker, or a mechanic, according to Slate.James Factora, Them, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recommendations include scaling back protection for foreign leaders during peak election season and exploring the possibility of moving the agency out of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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The two countries approved a new trade deal with Canada, known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), that even some free-market advocates saw as an improvement on its predecessor NAFTA due to its enhanced protections for intellectual property and labor rights.Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
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After taking out a bodyguard first, the Jackal succeeded at taking out the notorious entrepreneur — who he had been hired to kill by Timothy Winthorp (Charles Dance), a wealthy New York City businessman who was keen to stop UGC's economic transparency platform, River, from launching.Julia Moore, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
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Graves filed a federal lawsuit in New York claiming she was raped by Combs and his former bodyguard in 2001, an allegation later disputed by the bodyguard, Joseph Sherman, in a November countersuit.Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Protector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/protector. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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