Words similar to defends

Example sentences for: defends

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Politics has never made stranger bedfellows than in George Will's WP column in which on libertarian grounds, he defends the right of African-American hair care practitioners to administer unlicensed "sisterlocks."
In the New York Review of Books , James Fenton defends Ted Hughes.
The second level of falsity is that Brock defends Hillary only to elevate his own, proprietary scandal.
A story defends J.P.
But when labor defends Medicare, isn't it still being a special interest?