security guard
noun
: a person whose job is to guard a place (such as a store or museum) and make sure the people and things in it are not harmed
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This man is a World Trade Center security guard.
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Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Instead, five lower-level Hamas members were killed in the strike, as well as a Qatari security guard.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Their search leads them to Natalie's boyfriend, Matt Rayburn (Jon Bernthal), a security guard at a nearby oil drilling site.
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
In Indy, a similar device was thrown during the game, landing in the end zone where a security guard removed it from the field.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
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Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Instead, five lower-level Hamas members were killed in the strike, as well as a Qatari security guard.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Their search leads them to Natalie's boyfriend, Matt Rayburn (Jon Bernthal), a security guard at a nearby oil drilling site.
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
In Indy, a similar device was thrown during the game, landing in the end zone where a security guard removed it from the field.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Security guard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/security%20guard. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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