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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About 400 firefighters remained on scene overnight to guard against the fire flaring up.
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John Seewer, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
Defensive coordinator DeMarcus Covington preferred soft versions of Cover 3, which helped split the difference between loading the box to stop Indy’s run game and guarding against Richardson’s deep strikes.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 3 Dec. 2024
The American forces, which are in the northeast and far from Aleppo, are guarding against a resurgence by the extremist Islamic State group.
—Kareem Chehayeb, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
Pamela Price, elected as Alameda County District Attorney in 2022, implemented a policy to guard against racial biases in sentencing enhancements and exposed the exclusion of Black and Jewish people from death penalty juries.
—Calmatters, The Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2024
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John Seewer, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
Defensive coordinator DeMarcus Covington preferred soft versions of Cover 3, which helped split the difference between loading the box to stop Indy’s run game and guarding against Richardson’s deep strikes.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 3 Dec. 2024
The American forces, which are in the northeast and far from Aleppo, are guarding against a resurgence by the extremist Islamic State group.
—Kareem Chehayeb, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
Pamela Price, elected as Alameda County District Attorney in 2022, implemented a policy to guard against racial biases in sentencing enhancements and exposed the exclusion of Black and Jewish people from death penalty juries.
—Calmatters, The Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Guard against.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guard%20against. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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