as in defense
means or method of defending
be certain that all of your accusations are true, lest you just give them ammunition to claim that all of them are false
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Recent Examples of ammunition
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched the apartment on March 21 and found a bag with items including $1,000 in cash, a handgun with ammunition, a laptop and iPhone, according to court documents.
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Mike Snider, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Patrick Daley Thompson gives them further ammunition to argue that the false statements counts should not stand.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
Agents also allegedly found three additional firearms, ammunition and two suppressors.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Authorities found multiple firearms and ammunition.
—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2025
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Mike Snider, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Patrick Daley Thompson gives them further ammunition to argue that the false statements counts should not stand.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
Agents also allegedly found three additional firearms, ammunition and two suppressors.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Authorities found multiple firearms and ammunition.
—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ammunition
Noun
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And they’re being embedded into everything from CRM platforms to national defense strategies.—
Sandy Carter,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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In the guilt-innocence phase, the jury deliberated for about four hours and for about 90 minutes in the punishment phase, according to defense attorney Wiggins.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Apr. 2025
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The Trump administration can't immediately revoke the deportation protections and work permits of hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who entered the U.S. legally under a Biden-era program, a federal judge ruled Monday.—
Camilo Montoya-Galvez,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2025
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The federal government has moved to strip hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans from lawfully obtained deportation protections and work permits.—
Verónica Egui Brito,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2025
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The emergence of prompt shields and spotlight prompting has arisen due to the various hacking efforts trying to get generative AI to go beyond its filters and usual protections.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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The loot included a Twilight poster signed by stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner; signed Darth Vader and Stormtrooper helmets; and several signed Captain America shields.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Stay calm, keep your hands where officers can see them, and consider filming the interaction as unobtrusively as possible as a safeguard.—
Louryn Strampe,
Wired News,
9 Apr. 2025
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However, the reality is that the institutional DeFi opportunity is already stimulating innovation and industry development towards the kind of safeguards that institutions would demand.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Its officials, though, have increasingly threatened to pursue a nuclear weapon.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Major negative factors include Iran’s greater nuclear weapon capabilities, its shorter time frames to build nuclear weapons, and the growing normalization of internal Iranian discussions favoring building nuclear weapons.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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The new center’s acronym—CSAR—was pasted on an otherwise blank wall.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Ripping all the walls out, ripping all the ceilings out and going through that process.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Ammunition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ammunition. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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