as in armory
a place where military arms are stored sent the ordnance officer to the arsenal for weapons

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Recent Examples of arsenal Sasaki has said repeatedly that his primary goal is to first refine his primary fastball-splitter arsenal. Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025 But as the conflict spirals, with decades of animosity between the countries and powerful nuclear arsenals pointed at one another, the administration has now signaled it would get involved. Christopher Shays, New York Daily News, 10 May 2025 But Pakistan has stopped buying American arms in recent years and increasingly filled its arsenal with Chinese weapons. Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 9 May 2025 And pitchers have more pitches in their arsenal and better spin rate with each one. Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for arsenal
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Noun
  • The arena has been just the right size, not an 20,000-seat NBA building, but not an old armory, either.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2025
  • The armory profession has an impeccable safety record.
    Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2025
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  • Because of a Kansas law in the 1860s that outlawed public hangings, Bates-Lamborn explained that the gallows were situated inside the warehouse, away from the view of other prisoners.
    Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 17 May 2025
  • Not central command centers barking orders, but smart nodes—ports, warehouses, carriers—feeding real-time insights into an adaptive system.
    Shekar Natarajan, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025

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“Arsenal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arsenal. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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