weaponry
noun
weap·on·ry
ˈwe-pən-rē 
Examples of weaponry in a Sentence
The army has developed some new high-tech weaponry.
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Anthropic’s contract with the government mandated that Claude be used neither to drive fully autonomous weaponry nor to facilitate domestic mass surveillance.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
Iranian drones and missiles struck American forces, most notably in Kuwait, and compelled the United States and its allies in the Persian Gulf region to run down their stocks of air-defense weaponry.
—Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of state-of-the-art military equipment was now in the hands of the Taliban, which suddenly found itself in possession of a sophisticated air force, advanced weaponry and Black Hawk helicopters.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2026
Videos published by Islamic State West Africa Province showed massive weaponry and ammunition, as well as dozens of motorcycles and vehicles that the extremists said were captured during the raids.
—Arkansas Online, 11 Mar. 2026
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
Iranian drones and missiles struck American forces, most notably in Kuwait, and compelled the United States and its allies in the Persian Gulf region to run down their stocks of air-defense weaponry.
—Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of state-of-the-art military equipment was now in the hands of the Taliban, which suddenly found itself in possession of a sophisticated air force, advanced weaponry and Black Hawk helicopters.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2026
Videos published by Islamic State West Africa Province showed massive weaponry and ammunition, as well as dozens of motorcycles and vehicles that the extremists said were captured during the raids.
—Arkansas Online, 11 Mar. 2026
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“Weaponry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weaponry. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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weaponry
noun
weap·on·ry
ˈwep-ən-rē
: weapons as a whole
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