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
The Americans, Soviets, British, French, and Chinese got to keep their arsenals, enabling deterrence to continue to work, while other signatories gave up the right to go nuclear.
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Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2025
Among the many reasons is that when both sides possess nuclear arsenals, even trading limited strikes has the potential to escalate all the way up the ladder to use of the world’s most powerful bombs.
—Paul Avey, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025
China has historically resisted these discussions, arguing that Washington and Moscow should scale back their arsenals before demanding cuts from Beijing.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
That’s one of the reasons why many nations in Europe and across the world haven’t pursued their own nuclear arsenals.
—Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2025
The Ban Monitor shows both the problem—growing arsenals—and the solution—support for the TPNW, said Melissa Parke, Executive Director of ICAN.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 5 Mar. 2025
The qualifying pitches in the arsenals of the 88 starting pitchers who logged 135 or more innings were graded based on their bat-missing and contact management performances relative to the league.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
In the process, letter grades for every qualifying pitch in the arsenals of starting pitchers with 135 or more innings pitch were assigned based on their bat-missing and contact management performance relative to the league.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
European weapons and ammunition will continue flowing into Kyiv’s arsenals.
—David Axe, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2025
Among the many reasons is that when both sides possess nuclear arsenals, even trading limited strikes has the potential to escalate all the way up the ladder to use of the world’s most powerful bombs.
—Paul Avey, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025
China has historically resisted these discussions, arguing that Washington and Moscow should scale back their arsenals before demanding cuts from Beijing.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
That’s one of the reasons why many nations in Europe and across the world haven’t pursued their own nuclear arsenals.
—Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2025
The Ban Monitor shows both the problem—growing arsenals—and the solution—support for the TPNW, said Melissa Parke, Executive Director of ICAN.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 5 Mar. 2025
The qualifying pitches in the arsenals of the 88 starting pitchers who logged 135 or more innings were graded based on their bat-missing and contact management performances relative to the league.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
In the process, letter grades for every qualifying pitch in the arsenals of starting pitchers with 135 or more innings pitch were assigned based on their bat-missing and contact management performance relative to the league.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
European weapons and ammunition will continue flowing into Kyiv’s arsenals.
—David Axe, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arsenals
depots
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Even that deal was apparently too much for the combatants to follow through on — Ukraine and Russia continue to hit each other’s power stations and oil depots.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
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Picketing workers have been blamed for blocking dump trucks from leaving depots until police stepped in.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Arsenals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arsenals. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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