arming

present participle of arm

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for arming
Verb
  • Police officers and members of the local hunting association are now patrolling the city and preparing to capture the bear, or bears, on the loose.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 9 June 2026
  • As visitors from abroad start to arrive, San Jose officials are busy preparing for dozens of events and watch parties to complement the six upcoming matches that will take place at Levi’s Stadium.
    Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 8 June 2026
Verb
  • It is primarily tasked with repairing and fortifying the city’s more than 210,000 streetlamps — a frequent target of copper wire thieves — and maintaining its network of electrical vehicle charging stations.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
  • The five-day trade fair drew Black businesspersons from dozens of states, fortifying Jackson’s assertion that economic development is the way to Black power.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026
Verb
  • Inevitably, team evil has cooler powers, like Sindel’s scream and Kung Lao’s hat of doom, but in addition to allotting an inordinate amount of its combat time to Shao Kahn, who’s just a hulking guy with a hammer, the movie’s big visual idea is characters blasting one another with beams.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 May 2026
  • The framework proposes allotting $20 million of it to the Rays.
    Nicolas Villamil, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026
Verb
  • These features help give you an idea of your most up-to-date financial status without spending much time manually logging information or allocating every dollar.
    Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 3 June 2026
  • The new entity–which encompasses 25 investment companies and platforms and over 250 group subsidiaries–will expand its global footprint by allocating capital across public and private markets.
    Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 2 June 2026
Verb
  • In comparison, this effect was roughly half to three quarters as large as that of assigning a student to a class with seven fewer students per teacher.
    Supreet Kaur, Scientific American, 10 June 2026
  • Kevin Carter / Getty Images Reports also allege that the district requires teachers to consider race when assigning classes and to provide differing levels of academic support based on race.
    Gabriela Vidal, CBS News, 9 June 2026
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“Arming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arming. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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