armament

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Recent Examples of armament The new armament features a Kinsect that harvest extract as players attack. Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026 The images, however, highlight the vast gulf between the United States’ advanced military armament and Cuba’s old Soviet technology. Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2026 For 35 years Brazilian political elites have viewed nuclear armament as both unnecessary and counterproductive, given Brazil’s peaceful foreign policy, emphasis on multilateralism, and the Tlatelolco Treaty making Latin America a nuclear-weapons-free zone. Oliver Stuenkel, Time, 9 Jan. 2026 Trump recently announced a multibillion-dollar deal to send to Taiwan a massive armament package, including high-mobility artillery rocket systems, howitzers and drones. Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for armament
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Noun
  • Amodei cited the concern that Anthropic technology would be used for fully autonomous lethal weapons whose decisions were made without human involvement — and the potential for AI to be used for mass domestic surveillance on an unprecedented scale.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
  • In addition to SBIs to defend against missile attacks, Golden Dome will include lower-altitude and ground-based munitions suited for eliminating drones and other smaller, slower-moving aerial weapons.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • When Yoon was in office, Kim was embroiled in a series of scandals that hurt her husband’s approval rating and provided relentless political ammunition to his rivals.
    ABC News, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • When Yoon was in office, Kim was embroiled in scandals that hurt her husband’s approval rating and provided political ammunition to his rivals.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The volunteer dive team spent three years searching for the wreckage, eventually confirming its identity with the help of the Coast Guard Historians Office, which provided historical records, technical data and archival images of the ship's wheel, bell, deck fittings and weaponry.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Back in 2008, Putin explained why Russia was bringing the tanks-and-missiles show back to Red Square in the first big display of weaponry since the Soviet collapse.
    Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Be sure to cover your head and neck with your arms, and crawl under a sturdy table if possible.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Most robotic productivity so far has relied on robotic arms and similarly specialized robots that perform the same predictable tasks on assembly lines and in warehouses.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026

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“Armament.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armament. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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