unarmed

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Recent Examples of unarmed But abandoning these agreements could have a chilling effect on efforts that are already underway in Baltimore, Cleveland and Ferguson, Missouri, where a white police officer killed Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, in 2014. Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 25 May 2025 Both Russia and the U.S. regularly conduct unarmed tests of their nuclear missiles. Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025 And then there's the case of Breonna Taylor, an unarmed woman killed by police who were serving a no-knock search warrant in Louisville, Kentucky around midnight on March 13, 2020. Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 18 June 2025 He was charged with felony unarmed burglary, misdemeanor petit theft, first offense, and domestic battery, jail records show. Mark Price, Miami Herald, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for unarmed
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Adjective
  • The same goes for using passive language or not taking ownership of what went wrong.
    Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 7 July 2025
  • Meet your new manager: software that watches, scores, and reports Modern AI systems are no longer passive dashboards.
    Andrew Fennell, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • Leon Goretzka intercepted a feeble Pulgar clearance about 25 yards from goal and rather than close out to him, three Flamengo players decided to block off the corner of the net to the left of goalkeeper Agustin Rossi.
    Liam Twomey, New York Times, 29 June 2025
  • First appearing in Street Fighter Alpha in 1995, Hibiki is consistently portrayed as an overconfident, arrogant and utterly feeble character.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 26 June 2025

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“Unarmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unarmed. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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