How to Use arms race in a Sentence

arms race

noun
  • By this time, the Democrats had caught on and the arms race was joined.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
  • This, of course, is the dark side of the global streaming arms race.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The Celtics, left behind in the superteam arms race, seemed adrift.
    New York Times, 12 June 2022
  • The arrival of the shiny new chatbot kicked off an AI arms race.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
  • To fail to pick up a rock, when the other caveman picked up a rock, did not forestall the arms race.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • The luxury arms race is not the only way to revive a mall.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
  • There would be no obvious way out of a three-way arms race.
    Charles L. Glaser, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Branco likens the Long Island coastline to an arms race.
    Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2023
  • In the resulting arms race, the AI writing tools will always be one step ahead of the tools to detect AI text.
    John Villasenor, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2023
  • This fuels an arms race between a viral pathogen and its hosts.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • Kimball renounced war and took a stand against the nuclear arms race.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
  • At the start of the nuclear age, rather than heed Oppenheimer’s warning on the dangers of an arms race, the U.S. fired the starting gun.
    Senator Edward J. Markey, Scientific American, 27 July 2023
  • The deal sets a new benchmark in the college sports arms race, which is based heavily on TV money.
    Ralph D. Russo, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The college football arms race has officially come to the NBA.
    Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The broadcasters engaged in this arms race are, arguably, fighting the last war.
    Jody Rosen, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Today, college kids see the company as a potential place to get in on the AI arms race.
    Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
  • What was really bleeding the Soviet Union dry was the arms race.
    David A. Andelman, CNN, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Sectionals wrap:The Hamilton County arms race H is for homers.
    Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 14 June 2023
  • Experts fear that these controls could shift the tech arms race between the United States and China to a whole new level.
    Diksha Madhok, CNN, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The arms race may not continue along the same path but take off in a different direction.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 19 Sep. 2022
  • In the arms race for a lighter military rifle, the United States had fallen behind.
    Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Sumerlands, who share two members with Eternal Champion, may now be the band to beat in this retro arms race.
    Hank Shteamer, SPIN, 27 Sep. 2022
  • But their existence could still contribute to a CEO-pay arms race.
    Bylila MacLellan, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Pharma companies who fall behind in the AI arms race will simply not be around in ten years.
    Glenn Gow, Forbes, 5 June 2022
  • This has created an arms race among tech platforms to see which could inflate metrics the most.
    Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
  • But a kind of arms race has developed, some striking actors say.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
  • China also warned of a potential arms race in the region.
    Rod McGuirk, ajc, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Pricey tickets Airlines are in an arms race to outfit thousands of new aircraft with high-end seats — and more of them.
    Leslie Josephs, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2023
  • This is part of the corporate arms race for your personal data.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
  • As Begich and Palin trade barbs, Palin and Peltola have engaged in an arms race of niceness.
    Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. 2022

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