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defend

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1. Further, decision making must be streamlined in small species because their high metabolic rates and minimal energy reserves offer few choices in food-searching activities, defending against predators, or mating behaviors. (2026년 시행 6월 모평 23번)
2. If the baby water flea is developing into an adult in water that includes the chemical signatures of creatures that prey on water fleas, it develops a helmet and spines to defend itself against predators. (2022년 시행 수능 36번)
3. This is a cage model that is difficult to defend in a global world where we all, indigenous or not, are part of the same social fabric. (2019년 시행 9월 모평 21번)
4. Supporters of such legislation like to defend these increases with tales of starving writers and their impoverished descendants, but in reality the beneficiaries are more likely to be transnational publishing companies. (2017년 시행 수능 23번)