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• Dozens of men — in trucks, on dirt bikes and on foot — emerge from the mist to form heavily armed columns for a race across the border.
  — Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• 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
• Even Moten’s bodyguards, who were known to be heavily armed, were left vulnerable when their weapons were taken away.
  — Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The dusty access roads are teeming with heavily armed gangs, whose ranks have been reinforced by people who have escaped from prison.
  — Linnea Fehrm, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 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
• To many Israeli officials, Hezbollah, as the most heavily armed and well trained of these Iranian proxies, posed the greatest threat.
  — Amos Harel, Foreign Affairs, 23 July 2024
• 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
• Hezbollah's al-Manar television reported that four buildings were destroyed and there were many casualties in the multiple strikes, which marked an escalation of Israel's conflict with the heavily armed, Iran-backed Hezbollah.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024