self-protecting
- a word derived from self-protection.
Example Sentences
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It was as if I’d adapted it for him: his wit, his outsized charm, his self-deprecating, self-protecting social walls, his scorn, his heartbreak, his poetic soul.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2022
It jumped back into action after awakening from its deep self-protecting slumber.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2018
“It’s exhausting, challenging something so powerful as a political establishment, that is self-protecting and self-preserving,” Ms. Merrick said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2017
“I still make choices every day as a 41-year-old actress that I think of as self-protecting and wise,” she wrote in a New York Times essay, titled “Being a Feminist in Harvey Weinstein’s World.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2017
There are thus great areas, externally self-protecting, where free trade, as between internal divisions, has been introduced with little, if any, political difficulty, and with considerable economic advantage.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
