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Recent Examples of weaponry
Anthropic’s contract with the government mandated that Claude be used neither to drive fully autonomous weaponry nor to facilitate domestic mass surveillance.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
Many of the systems used to deploy such weaponry are small and easily transportable, so tracking them down is not easy.
—Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
While the Finns work with them, officers point out that necessity has been the mother of Ukraine’s inventiveness in drones, making up for the country’s relative lack of mass infantry and heavy weaponry — just as Finns did with Molotov cocktails in the Winter War.
—Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of state-of-the-art military equipment was now in the hands of the Taliban, which suddenly found itself in possession of a sophisticated air force, advanced weaponry and Black Hawk helicopters.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2026
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
Many of the systems used to deploy such weaponry are small and easily transportable, so tracking them down is not easy.
—Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
While the Finns work with them, officers point out that necessity has been the mother of Ukraine’s inventiveness in drones, making up for the country’s relative lack of mass infantry and heavy weaponry — just as Finns did with Molotov cocktails in the Winter War.
—Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of state-of-the-art military equipment was now in the hands of the Taliban, which suddenly found itself in possession of a sophisticated air force, advanced weaponry and Black Hawk helicopters.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weaponry
Noun
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Iran also is targeting data centers with both cyber and conventional weapons, showing how important the centers have become to the economy, communications and military information security.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Most of the incidents had not resulted in physical injuries; in some cases, prosecutors charged people for assaulting agents with such weapons as a tambourine, an umbrella, and a Subway sandwich.—
Oriana van Praag,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The boxes bore the same lot number as ammunition found in Moïse’s home, according to a photograph also submitted by the government.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2026
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For Ukraine, the technology could have particular value in artillery operations, where large quantities of ammunition must be transported and loaded repeatedly under combat conditions.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Weaponry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weaponry. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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