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Recent Examples of disarm Israel's latest ceasefire proposal presented to Hamas included a willingness to negotiate a permanent end of the war, but on condition of a new demand that Hamas, and all militant groups in Gaza, be disarmed. Aya Batrawy, NPR, 15 Apr. 2025 Fabian can't hide his deeply shady side, but his obsessiveness about singing in front of the resort is disarming. Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025 Kilmer’s guilelessness in recounting his life so directly, without interruption, is disarming and perhaps a bit obfuscatory. Rachel Handler, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025 Katz's remarks came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated calls for Hamas to disarm and said the application of military pressure was the best way to get back the remaining 59 hostages. James MacKenzie, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disarm
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Verb
  • Similarly, pausing attacks on energy infrastructure is clearly more advantageous to Russia, as is demilitarizing the Black Sea, given Russia’s dependence on the waterway and the Russian Navy’s extreme – and one-sided – vulnerability to Ukrainian attacks.
    Douglas Schoen, Orange County Register, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The outcome that Putin wants would be a Ukraine that is permanently stripped of almost 25 percent of its territory, demilitarized, and barred from joining the EU and NATO.
    STEPHEN HADLEY, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Just as the elites proved weak, so too did the international order, as shown by the number of countries eager to appease or function as if all is normal.
    Robert Williams, Time, 24 Apr. 2025
  • No, De Bruyne will probably end up at a club looking for a quick one-year fix, with an owner who is happy to make a high-earning vanity signing in an attempt to distract and appease long-suffering supporters after yet another poor season.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
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  • Research documents how political violence leads to political repression and demobilizes social movements.
    Dana R. Fisher, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Demilitarizing the economy and demobilizing the public would risk undermining the system that sustains his rule.
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2025

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“Disarm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disarm. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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