Ward in a sentence as a noun

" How you behave towards bullies sends a powerful signal to other bullies.

Now we know the astroturfers don't even need to ward off backers, they can just get Kickstarter to shut the project down.

My wife looked inwards towards our daughter, making sure she was fed, entertained, and comfortable.

We thought she was going to get better, she was in emergency for one day before being moved to a ward where she wasn't being monitored as carefully.

What's most important these days is the data was cleaned first, and was proactively given out to police which was used indirectly to ward off future crime.

- 10 am3 - Get another 400 emails that are related to an ongoing discussion with managers on your level who are trying to stick your department with more work/blame/responsibility without letting you in on it. React at lightning speed to ward off evil.

Ward in a sentence as a verb

Indeed, simply listing your company membership in such an association on your website might be sufficient to ward them off, same as sticking alarm decals on car windows wards off many would-be car thieves.

We divided up responsibilities so 'I looked outward, and [my spouse] looked inward', meaning that I spent my time making sure that the relevant referrals happened, that medications were administered on time and on dose, and so on.

We can always hope though.- ps apologies for lack of sources, I'm on mobile, I'm a doctor working on an oncology ward and I just had my worst day in my 5 month long career today and hardly in the mood to do the research legwork required to substantiate my claims.

I think it's perfectly absurd to expect that a brief intelligent comment on a social chat board be expected to include encyclopedic completeness and citations to ward off every conceivable casual wanton misinterpretation.

"the notion that the governments raisin-administrators ward off chaotic gyrations in prices far-fetched: walnut and citrus farmers, after all, have abandoned similar systems in recent years without any ill effects"This issue has been studied extensively - "agricultural central banks" are a bad way to deal with a perishable commodity because they shift demand volatility onto the government's balance sheet and so dull the incentive for supply to adjust, or find ways to become more versatile.

Ward definitions

noun

a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another

noun

a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections

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block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care; "they put her in a 4-bed ward"

noun

English economist and conservationist (1914-1981)

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noun

English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920)

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noun

United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913)

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noun

a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)

See also: cellblock

verb

watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect; "guard my possessions while I'm away"

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