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as in weaponry
something used to defend
Concealed weapons were not allowed in the building.
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as in tool
a person or thing that is used to produce a result
Poetry was her weapon of choice in the writing contest.
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as in to arm
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Recent Examples of weapon
Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Advertisement With Assad gone, Hezbollah lost a vital route for smuggling weapons from Iran.
—Abby Sewell and Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025
Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 29 May 2024
Nor would second-tier nuclear powers need to match China, Russia, and the United States weapon for weapon.
—Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr., Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
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Lincoln Day is also fluid in its sense of history: here in Hotchkiss, a slogan that had been embraced by the Confederacy had been engraved on a semi-automatic weapon and then sold at an event honoring the first American President to get shot in office.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Advertisement With Assad gone, Hezbollah lost a vital route for smuggling weapons from Iran.
—Abby Sewell and Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025
Verb
Three other males were charged with felony murder, as party to a crime, in addition to weapon and carjacking charges as well.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 29 May 2024
Nor would second-tier nuclear powers need to match China, Russia, and the United States weapon for weapon.
—Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr., Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
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Much to Ukraine’s consternation, Israel has not sent it lethal weaponry since Russia’s full-scale 2022 invasion, citing Russia’s presence in neighboring Syria, which has since been diminished by Assad’s fall.Paul Iddon, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Beijing and Moscow have reportedly already begun to collaborate on developing AI weaponry.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
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Strap-on dildos are often tools of slapstick humor on TV or around the internet — as Broad City or And Just Like That viewers can vouch — and often the joke relies on the difficulty or cumbersome nature of using one.Sofia Barrett-Ibarria, Them, 8 Jan. 2025
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New experimental and theoretical results, new tools and private sector investment are all adding to our growing sense that developing practical fusion energy is no longer an if but a when.Farhat Beg, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2025
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David Lee, chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Webtoon Entertainment, came to the Entertainment Summit armed with eye-popping numbers that helped attendees understand the scope of the webtoon phenomenon.Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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China is one of the nine nations armed with nuclear weapons.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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To the south of the extensive snow shield, a strip of damaging ice will build up on trees and power lines, potentially knocking out electricity to millions of people from central Kansas to West Virginia Sunday into Monday.Andrew Freedman, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
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In the Manhattan fire, Gaffney used a removed door as a shield to move through a raging fire to find a pregnant woman and a child, who were both unconscious.Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2025
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This multitasker is formulated with essential fatty acids and botanical oils thanks to ingredients like argan and sunflower seed.Kiana Murden, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2025
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Disclaimer as per manufacturer: * 1% skin safe synthetic ingredients are included to maintain the integrity of the product.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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However, the fundamental core of the creative process remains unchanged; talented individuals, equipped with the appropriate tools, are ultimately responsible for bringing new ideas to life.Kimberly A. Whitler, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
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The Pentagon said Friday that two military C-130 Hercules aircraft equipped with a firefighting system are now on the scene, according to Military.com.Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 12 Jan. 2025
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Similarly, an instrument aboard NOAA’s JPSS-2 satellite, NOAA-21, took this picture also highlighting the hotspots from the fire and the length of the smoke plume extending out over the ocean.Meredith Garofalo, Space.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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To that end, the composer traveled the world collecting recordings that would find their way into the score, starting with instrument maker Abraham Cupeiro in Northern Spain.Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 7 Jan. 2025
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The 110th Brigade is helping to buy time for other brigades to reequip with heavier weaponry.David Axe, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2023
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In the meantime, the first Ukrainian brigade fully to reequip with Western tanks probably will ride in Leopard 1A5s from the mid-1980s.David Axe, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
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“Weapon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weapon. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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