heavily armed

idiom

: carrying many dangerous weapons
a group of heavily armed men

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Leann Williams, a resident of New Orleans neighborhood Tremé, was unnerved by the sight of heavily armed military personnel holding machine guns at the Superdome. Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 27 Aug. 2025 Aerial footage from Denver ABC affiliate KMGH showed heavily armed officers searching the park. Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2025 Tourists visiting Cancún and Mexico’s Riviera Maya this summer are being greeted not just with ocean breezes and poolside cocktails, but by heavily armed patrols. Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2025 As the term suggests, swatting is a fake call to emergency services designed to bring Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams or heavily armed police to someone’s doorstep, despite a lack of any emergency. Daniel Seifert, JSTOR Daily, 16 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for heavily armed

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“Heavily armed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heavily%20armed. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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