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• The trailer shows Ford cracking that whip in front of a group of heavily armed henchmen with Waller-Bridge at his side.
  — Andrew Dalton, Chron, 11 Sep. 2022
• For those who live in the French suburbs, run-ins with heavily armed cops are not uncommon.
  — Charlotte Kilpatrick, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
• The Bradley, fast and heavily armed, was built to carry ground troops across battlefields.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2023
• William was wounded in the attack, which claimed the lives of eight people before the heavily armed gunman was shot dead.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 9 May 2023
• Custodian Mike Hill, 61, was killed when the heavily armed Hale blasted through the glass of a locked door to come into the school, Drake said.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2023
• The ronda is most heavily armed while guarding the forest.
  — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• The Russians — more heavily armed — advance in spurts, pushing the front lines farther west.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
• Serbia is among the most heavily armed countries in the world, in part because of a legacy of conflicts in the former Yugoslavia throughout the 1990s.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• Some people went on with their daily lives, undisturbed by the heavily armed new arrivals.
  — Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
• And those heavily armed, widely feared Zero Unit trucks?
  — ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2022
• From the windows of one convoy, fighters from the two sides could be seen standing, heavily armed but unmoving.
  — Jack Jeffery and Noha Elhennawy, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2023
• From the windows of one convoy, fighters from the two sides could be seen standing, heavily armed but unmoving.
  — Jack Jeffery and Noha Elhennawy, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2023
• Once peaceful fishermen now go to sea heavily armed and share trade routes and profits with drug kingpins.
  — Erik Vance, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
• Experts have described Hezbollah as the world’s most heavily armed non-state actor.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• The shooting at the hospital briefly sparked panic as heavily armed police combed the building hunting for the gunman.
  — Ahmad Seir and Aleksandar Furtula The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2023
• The compound housed a heavily armed group of Branch Davidians.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
• As Haiti prepares for new leadership, some experts question the role that heavily armed gangs who control 80% of Port-au-Prince will play.
  — Dánica Coto and Evens Sanon, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024
• The police force is struggling to stave off an insurrection by heavily armed gangs.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
• This makes no sense to him — but there’s no time to puzzle it out, as his rural home is abruptly swarmed by heavily armed agents with apparent shoot-to-kill orders.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Jan. 2024
• Nearly 400 heavily armed officials rushed to the school but waited more than an hour before one of them confronted and killed the shooter.
  — Acacia Coronado, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
• According to the police, Hale, who attended the school years ago, arrived on campus in her Honda Fit and was heavily armed with three guns.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2023
• Other nations are trying to compete with more heavily armed patrol boats of their own.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 20 June 2023
• Others said his fighters were too heavily armed and posed too big an immediate threat to be neutralized on the spot.
  — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• The video then jumped 19 minutes ahead and showed a more heavily armed police presence in the hallway, but officers had still not confronted the gunman.
  — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 17 July 2022
• They were held within an expanse of forests that stretches over the border into Niger, an expanse that has become a haven for hundreds of heavily armed groups.
  — Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 9 Apr. 2024
• And that includes the arid wastes of Baluchistan, a region which straddles the Iranian-Pakistani border and has long been a source of friction between the two heavily armed neighbors.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
• Its largest carriers and most heavily armed destroyers aren’t equipped to defend against throngs of invaders descending from the air.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2023
• Stone and his supporters had publicly claimed to be outraged that, as a man in his 60s charged with nonviolent crimes, he was roused by heavily armed officers in a dawn raid.
  — Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 30 July 2022
• Video posted by an aide showed the former president leaving his private jet flanked by Secret Service agents and heavily armed members of the agency’s counterassault team, an unusually visible show of force by his protective detail.
  — Michael Balsamo, Fortune, 14 July 2024
• The heavily armed tactical team travels everywhere with the president and major party nominees and is meant to confront any active threats while other agents focus on safeguarding and evacuating the person at the center of protection.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024