arsenals

noun

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

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Recent Examples of arsenals First isolated in the 1940s by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, plutonium has been widely used to build nuclear arsenals by multiple countries. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026 Rebuilding depleted arsenals will take years, with the Defense Production Act invoked to boost production. — Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 Israel and some Gulf states also have the bomb in their arsenals. — Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Money, 11 June 2026 Russian arsenals in Belarus include its latest intermediate range nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system. — ABC News, 19 May 2026 Iran’s proxies in Iraq also possess advanced arsenals, including ballistic missiles and anti-aircraft weapons. — Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026 Yet deliberate hot war still ranks as the least likely of the five traps, because nuclear arsenals and deep commercial ties make escalation catastrophically expensive for both governments. — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2026 The last nuclear arms pact, known as the New START treaty, between Russia and the United States expired in February, removing any caps on the two largest atomic arsenals for the first time in more than a half-century. — Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 13 May 2026 But the core disputes were left unresolved, and, in the interim, Iran gained time to rebuild its weapons arsenals and defenses, preparing for a potential wider conflict. — Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arsenals
  1. armories
  2. warehouses
  3. depots
Noun
  • The work is part of a larger effort statewide to update the National Guard’s armories, as renovations in recent years have either been completed or are planned at many readiness centers, including those in Brainerd, New Ulm, Marshall, Moorhead and Fergus Falls.
    — Elliot Mann, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026
  • Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire a year ago, but Israel — which says the group has been rebuilding its armories, and that Lebanon is failing in its commitment to disarm it — has ramped up attacks against Hezbollah in recent days.
    — semafor.com, semafor.com, 27 Nov. 2025
Definition of armories
Noun
  • Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have destroyed several weapons-support warehouses, a satellite communications center, and a US forces building in a missile and drone attack on Bahrain’s Juffair military base today.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
  • As with the warehouses, the grounds at Fort Bliss were never designed to serve as the site of long-term detention.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
Definition of warehouses
Noun
  • Space-rock mining could therefore enable the operation of off-Earth propellant depots, which would allow voyaging spacecraft to top off their tanks on the go and explore the solar system more deeply and ambitiously.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 July 2026
  • Sailors can complete repairs on-site instead of waiting for replacement parts to be shipped from repair depots in the United States by manufacturing the necessary patches where the aircraft are deployed.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 July 2026
Definition of depots

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