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Because Mr. Suleman owns no shares of Citadel — his holdings consist solely of options — some of the company’s owners suspect that he is warding off an attractive acquirer to keep his job.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2011

Vienna-born Dr. Raab could not care less how he looks so long as he is warding off what he calls "loafer's heart."

From Time Magazine Archive

Back on the arm of her longtime beau Mikhail Baryshnikov, 34, Lange finds that her most challenging current role is warding off rumors that she has become a temperamental star.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here a sturdy Athenian is dragging her from her seat, while another Amazon is warding off a blow, and preparing to strike one at the same time, in the right corner.

From How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by Jerrold, W. Blanchard

And Lamont, with his half-unconscious charge, is hauled to the bank, he gripping with death-like force the end of the fir-pole, under the impression that he is warding off a hostile spear from his heart.

From In the Whirl of the Rising by Mitford, Bertram