armament

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Recent Examples of armament Within these broad categories there was a bewildering array of specific armaments. Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026 Kim had also supervised two rounds of missile tests from the Choe Hyon last month while vowing to accelerate the nuclear armament of his navy. ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026 Now, given that the US and Israel have attacked the country as negotiations were ongoing, Iran’s hardliners in parliament are calling on the regime to advance to full nuclear armament. Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026 The new armament features a Kinsect that harvest extract as players attack. Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for armament
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Noun
  • Shelton cruised from there, mixing his primary weapons in with athletic defense that garnered big reactions from the Montreal crowd and deflated Nakashima even more.
    Ava Wallace, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Video snippets captured from two highway patrol officers’ cameras showed the man initially standing at a homeless encampment while holding a hammer and two nearly identical homemade weapons, each of them made with a knife affixed to the end of pole.
    Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • North Korea, in turn, has sent ammunition and soldiers to fight for Russia in its war in Ukraine.
    ZHENG JIYONG, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Failing that, Zelenskyy wants to make Patriot ammunition in Ukraine or get approval from Elon Musk to use his Starlink satellite communications system to guide strikes inside Russia that can hit its missile launchers.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Separately, Netanyahu’s office said work was underway on a new tent city, funded by the United Arab Emirates, in an area that the IDF had cleared of Hamas and weaponry.
    Dan Williams, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The plot of the original YouTube series began to follow the Skibidi Toilets, a conqueror race armed with futuristic weaponry and an intention to colonize the galaxy.
    Kyle MacNeill, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • And the only thing really falling seems to be US military readiness, as key arms stockpiles are rapidly depleted.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Russia, along with China, is a major supporter and arms supplier to Myanmar.
    ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

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“Armament.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armament. Accessed 18 Aug. 2026.

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