arms race
noun
: a race between hostile nations to accumulate or develop weapons
broadly
: an ever escalating race or competition
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The next frontier in the AI arms race may be a couple miles beneath the Pacific Ocean.
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Jake Angelo, Fortune, 15 May 2026
There are franchise social teams locked in a creative arms race that began with the Seahawks’ 2016 cupcake video and has since escalated into a leaguewide content Hunger Games, where every team is one bad parody away from being roasted by its own fans.
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2026
This century has seen an arms race in commencement-address celebrity.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
For Arjun Singri, founder of Scamless, this has created a new kind of digital arms race, where the same technology driving progress is also being used to deceive people at scale.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 14 May 2026
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Jake Angelo, Fortune, 15 May 2026
There are franchise social teams locked in a creative arms race that began with the Seahawks’ 2016 cupcake video and has since escalated into a leaguewide content Hunger Games, where every team is one bad parody away from being roasted by its own fans.
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2026
This century has seen an arms race in commencement-address celebrity.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
For Arjun Singri, founder of Scamless, this has created a new kind of digital arms race, where the same technology driving progress is also being used to deceive people at scale.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 14 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for arms race
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“Arms race.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arms%20race. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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