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verb

past tense of arm

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of armed
Adjective
The violence underscored the difficulty Syria’s news leaders are facing in controlling the various armed groups and former rebels who have nominally joined the government. Euan Ward, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025 Initially charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action, in 2024 Rueckert reached an agreement with prosecutors and agreed to plead guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in exchange for a lesser sentence, the online records show. Kc Baker, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025 She is also charged with armed criminal action, and her bond is set at $1 million. Elizabeth Pritchett, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2025 Many officers also think the country has become too deferential to the armed services for its own good. Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for armed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for armed
Adjective
  • Scammers ply their trade from call centers, operating in fortified compounds or on the upper floors of unfinished high-rises.
    Selam Gebrekidan, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Views over Valletta’s fortified harbor evoke memories of Napoleonic battles (as depicted in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, which shot in Malta).
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • There’s no such thing as being over-prepared when traveling with kids.
    Ramona Saviss, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
  • All four teams are stronger and better prepared with players who weren’t available for the first meeting.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • But Dahl realized that Sparks had assigned her the Williams case within a day of Sarah’s first phone call.
    Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Finland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs notes that individuals whose passport gender does not match their gender assigned at birth may have their visa or travel permit denied.
    Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • While Medicaid and Medicare haven't been specified as areas to cut, the committee will have to make final decisions, and Medicaid and Medicare are allotted a considerable portion of the committee's funding.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025
  • In the short term, more is being allotted to farms and communities in Central and Southern California.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The procedure and results are ripe for discussion, but first, some housekeeping: Who can benefit from a salmon sperm facial?
    Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 3 May 2025
  • Conditions may be ripe for greater conflict now than was seen in 2019, according to Steven Honig and Natalie Caloca, researchers at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
Verb
  • As a volunteer at the campus in his high school days, Rowland strongly favored keeping the facility running and later allocated millions in state money that was matched even further by additional millions in federal money.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the remaining funding to be allocated as loans to clean energy companies is on hold.
    Heather Farmbrough, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025

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“Armed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armed. Accessed 18 May. 2025.

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