arms race
noun
: a race between hostile nations to accumulate or develop weapons
broadly
: an ever escalating race or competition
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Now in the context of the very obvious dropping of moral guardrails around international relations, other countries will be less bound by a sense of world order, emboldened by an arms race, and will start to take risks and make mistakes.
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Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Also, the number of Americans with advanced degrees has increased significantly over the past 20 years, so there's a bit of an academic arms race taking place.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025
Of course, like everything else in the defense realm, this advantage has resulted in an arms race waged over a century as navies come up with better ways to detect submarines while making their boats stealthier.
—New Atlas, 26 Apr. 2025
As one of the contestants in the AI arms race, Google is leveraging its nearly 90% market share in search to promote search results from its AI platform Gemini.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2025
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Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Also, the number of Americans with advanced degrees has increased significantly over the past 20 years, so there's a bit of an academic arms race taking place.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025
Of course, like everything else in the defense realm, this advantage has resulted in an arms race waged over a century as navies come up with better ways to detect submarines while making their boats stealthier.
—New Atlas, 26 Apr. 2025
As one of the contestants in the AI arms race, Google is leveraging its nearly 90% market share in search to promote search results from its AI platform Gemini.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for arms race
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“Arms race.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arms%20race. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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