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as in tool
a person or thing that is used to produce a result
Poetry was her weapon of choice in the writing contest.
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Recent Examples of weapon
Madeline Armstrong, Daily News, 25 Jan. 2026
Tanya Ceja pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 25 Jan. 2026
Mark Davis, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2025
Simultaneously, Israeli airstrikes destroyed multiple military installations, including fighter jets and weapon caches across Syria.
—Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 23 Jan. 2025
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Noun
In bystander videos of the shooting that emerged soon after, Pretti is seen with a phone in his hand but none appear to show him with a visible weapon.
—Madeline Armstrong, Daily News, 25 Jan. 2026
Tanya Ceja pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 25 Jan. 2026
Verb
New England did make one wide receiver addition, bringing in former Buffalo Bills weapon Mack Hollins.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2025
Simultaneously, Israeli airstrikes destroyed multiple military installations, including fighter jets and weapon caches across Syria.
—Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weapon
Noun
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Secondary weaponry appears to have comprised at least four machine guns.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
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Ukraine is short of money and, despite significantly boosting its own arms manufacturing, still needs Western weaponry.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Gardening Tools Garden tools should be cleaned after every use to remove fungi, bacteria, and pests that can be transferred to healthy plants.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
9 Jan. 2026
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And keep your in-flight essentials like headphones, sleep mask, e-reader, and other tech tools together in your personal item that stays with you at the seat rather than in the overhead bin.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Toward that goal, retailers can arm store associates with technology that supports sales.—
Sarah Jones,
Footwear News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Beck features the size (6-4, 220), arm talent and intangibles that NFL teams seek in a starting QB, but the inconsistency followed him to Coral Gables.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Jan. 2026
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As an Earth-orbiting spacecraft descends, temperatures of up to 3,500°F bloom across the heat shield at the bottom of the capsule.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
29 Jan. 2026
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Or the good swarm comes to your aid and serves as your shield and protector.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Whether choosing cleaning products with trustworthy ingredients or buying a pair of shoes made of recycled materials, brand values are now part of the purchase decision.—
Serenity Gibbons,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The spare ingredient list allows the bulb’s true flavor to shine through.—
Shilpa Uskokovic,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Artificial intelligence inspires both excitement and anxiety, and few people are as well equipped to separate signal from noise as Rajeev Kapur.—
Rodger Dean Duncan,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The property is equipped with a heating system.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
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His talent for pulling music out of phase, bending instruments to his will and inspiring the room into new realms really pushed Maren and me to summon fresh melodies and new stories out of our writing.—
Melinda Newman,
Billboard,
26 Jan. 2026
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Given that large observatories need lots of power to run computers, instruments and support systems, all in a remote location, having solar panels allows the process to be more sustainable and harvest the resources already there in the area.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
26 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The 110th Brigade is helping to buy time for other brigades to reequip with heavier weaponry.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2023
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The company will reequip its Amtrak Long Distance Network, considering ideas from as many as 10 manufacturers, according to Amtrak.—
Alison Fox,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Jan. 2023
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“Weapon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weapon. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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