How to Use arms race in a Sentence

arms race

noun
  • Russia soon followed the US in withdrawing from the treaty, sparking concerns of a new arms race.
    Darya Tarasova and Benjamin Brown, CNN, 28 July 2024
  • The arms race between the Koreas comes amid mounting worries elsewhere in the region.
    Victoria Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The division is involved in a literal arms race, with premiere quarterbacks leading the way.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Nevertheless, camouflage in the modern sense only emerged in the modern era, as a defensive front in the global arms race.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Rival ballistic missiles tests this week by both nations signaled an escalating arms race rather than the careful drawdown the leaders once pledged.
    Victoria Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The find may give researchers an understanding of how competition within a species ignites an evolutionary arms race and drives rapid evolution.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Sep. 2021
  • In the meantime, deploying more technologies to combat AI cheating will only prolong the student-teacher arms race.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2024
  • This means that the same arms race awaits us in maritime cybersecurity as in other critical market verticals, including finance and healthcare.
    Roman Gold, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The arms race of jammers versus drone communications is an ongoing one and systems are constantly upgraded to prevent them from becoming useless.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • In his first year, Pilla issued pastoral letters calling for an end to the nuclear arms race and encouraging Catholics to promote economic justice.
    David Briggs, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2021
  • By this time, the Democrats had caught on and the arms race was joined.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
  • This, of course, is the dark side of the global streaming arms race.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The Celtics, left behind in the superteam arms race, seemed adrift.
    New York Times, 12 June 2022
  • The arrival of the shiny new chatbot kicked off an AI arms race.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
  • This is an arms race that no one can avoid being a part of.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
  • As soon as the world warmed up, all of life would have had to compete in an arms race to adapt.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
  • To fail to pick up a rock, when the other caveman picked up a rock, did not forestall the arms race.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • And who better to kick off this new arms race for talent?
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The luxury arms race is not the only way to revive a mall.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
  • There would be no obvious way out of a three-way arms race.
    Charles L. Glaser, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2023
  • That year, President Kennedy came to see a way out of the looming arms race.
    New York Times, 30 Oct. 2021
  • With the war in Ukraine and the threat of a new arms race, the nuclear danger is increasing.
    William Lambers, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Branco likens the Long Island coastline to an arms race.
    Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Since Trump’s election, both parties have been in an arms race.
    Ben Wikler, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Biden’s secret shift this year does not yet amount to launching such an arms race.
    Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2024
  • In the resulting arms race, the AI writing tools will always be one step ahead of the tools to detect AI text.
    John Villasenor, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2023
  • This fuels an arms race between a viral pathogen and its hosts.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • Kimball renounced war and took a stand against the nuclear arms race.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
  • At the start of the nuclear age, rather than heed Oppenheimer’s warning on the dangers of an arms race, the U.S. fired the starting gun.
    Senator Edward J. Markey, Scientific American, 27 July 2023
  • We’re locked in a thousands-year-long arms race with German roaches.
    Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2024

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