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Example sentences for: defends

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A story defends Joyce Maynard, whose forthcoming memoir describes her affair with J.D.
For example, she is fearful that her 5-year-old will someday date a person of another race, and she defends those who (as she puts it) "want to preserve their traditions."
He defends the cultural-studies journal Social Text and the field of "science studies," even after they were humiliated through a brilliant prank by physicist Alan Sokal.
A story defends the Scholastic Assessment Test.
Asked if he still defends his earlier, anti-Anita Hill sexological snooping, Brock unenthusiastically says "Yeah." ...