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as in to demilitarize
to reduce the size and strength of the armed forces of
the defeated nation was disarmed so that it would never again be a threat to international order
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as in to appease
to lessen the anger or agitation of
her future father-in-law was totally disarmed by her easy charm
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Recent Examples of disarm
Hamas has refused to disarm, accusing Israel of violating the ceasefire and refusing to withdraw further.
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Matt Bradley, NBC news, 12 May 2026
So somebody has to disarm them.
—CBS News, 10 May 2026
He was then disarmed and transported to a hospital.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
Israel is preventing major rehabilitation efforts until Hamas is disarmed.
—Anas Baba, NPR, 6 May 2026
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Matt Bradley, NBC news, 12 May 2026
So somebody has to disarm them.
—CBS News, 10 May 2026
He was then disarmed and transported to a hospital.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
Israel is preventing major rehabilitation efforts until Hamas is disarmed.
—Anas Baba, NPR, 6 May 2026
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Somebody has to then-- demilitarize Gaza.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 May 2026
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Israel’s defense minister says hundreds of thousands of people uprooted from southern Lebanon will not be allowed to return home until the area is demilitarized and Israel believes its northern communities are safe.—
Kareem Chehayeb,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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Its positions are so hostile to the West, even by the standards of Iran’s conservative hardliners, that the regime’s efforts to appease it have so far failed.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
9 May 2026
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What Musgraves is doing here is not like the bro-country guys who ease off trap drums to appease country traditionalists.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
7 May 2026
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Since then all Illinois National Guard troops have been demobilized and sent back to their original assignments.—
Jason Meisner,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2026
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Rattling off the potential for irreparable harm, the attorney said that demobilizing the project and then restarting it would significantly delay the overall timeline of the critical infrastructure project, or even torpedo the whole thing.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Disarm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disarm. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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