as in demilitarization
the reduction or elimination of a country's armed forces or weapons
the ambassador spoke at length about the possible unilateral disarmament of his country
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Recent Examples of disarmament
On paper, the Lebanese state has a mandate for disarmament.
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Euan Ward, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to resume talks with Kim, but Pyongyang has so far ignored the overtures and urged Washington to drop demands for the North’s nuclear disarmament as a precondition for talks.
—ABC News, 25 May 2026
The disarmament thus takes place as an ecological project, one that situates AI within the broad sweep of human culture and that orients it towards human flourishing, not toward warfare, monopolistic power, or new inequalities.
—Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 25 May 2026
Mladenov conditioned Israel’s full withdrawal from Gaza on the fulfillment of other elements of the plan – primarily Hamas’ disarmament and achieving civil governance in Gaza.
—Eugenia Yosef, CNN Money, 15 May 2026
Mladenov did not answer questions about what could lie ahead for Gaza in the absence of disarmament.
—Julia Frankel, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
The main sticking point remains Hamas’ disarmament.
—Matt Bradley, NBC news, 25 Apr. 2026
Hamas appears to have made a partial disarmament offer.
—Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
While the nonpartisan commissions respected the will of the voters, Democrats understandably began to see them as a form of unilateral disarmament.
—Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2026
Euan Ward, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to resume talks with Kim, but Pyongyang has so far ignored the overtures and urged Washington to drop demands for the North’s nuclear disarmament as a precondition for talks.
—ABC News, 25 May 2026
The disarmament thus takes place as an ecological project, one that situates AI within the broad sweep of human culture and that orients it towards human flourishing, not toward warfare, monopolistic power, or new inequalities.
—Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 25 May 2026
Mladenov conditioned Israel’s full withdrawal from Gaza on the fulfillment of other elements of the plan – primarily Hamas’ disarmament and achieving civil governance in Gaza.
—Eugenia Yosef, CNN Money, 15 May 2026
Mladenov did not answer questions about what could lie ahead for Gaza in the absence of disarmament.
—Julia Frankel, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
The main sticking point remains Hamas’ disarmament.
—Matt Bradley, NBC news, 25 Apr. 2026
Hamas appears to have made a partial disarmament offer.
—Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
While the nonpartisan commissions respected the will of the voters, Democrats understandably began to see them as a form of unilateral disarmament.
—Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disarmament
demilitarization
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The Palestinian militant group has sought to link any demilitarization to Israeli troop pullbacks.—
Julia Frankel,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
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Who knew that an attempt to ruin Iran’s navy and army would result in the demilitarization of the West?—
Rachel Marsden,
Hartford Courant,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Disarmament.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disarmament. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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