arm
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Data-security company Cyera has raised $400 million from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, the private markets arm of the banking giant’s asset-management division.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
It projected a 3D model of an arm onto the wound.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
During the three-month march, Hay said he once "lay down to die" after it became too painful to continue, but two friends turned back for him and lifted him with an "arm around each shoulder".
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
For his part, Pantoja has not fought since that bout against Van, in which he suffered a dislocated arm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Oslak nodded at the bandage on Torak’s other arm, and grimaced.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
He referred to himself as an “international arms dealer and mercenary,” the request for a restraining order said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Firestein said he expects Xi will be looking for Trump to either commit to extending the delay of the arms sale or somehow avoiding the sale altogether.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
The message was clear: Only “warriors” need apply to the newly reconstituted profession of arms.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Who is doing the most good when, ostensibly, everyone is trying to do the right thing, acting within their rights as parents or arms of the government?
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Rubbing her arms like she was suddenly cold, Harry smiled the fake smile that she’d used a lot earlier in the school year.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Ethiopia has faced years of armed conflict in Oromia and Amhara, the most populous states in the country.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
How do we make sure that when you’re calling 911 and armed officers are the only option to be able to show up, that they’re showing up in a timely fashion?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Chancellor Friedrich Merz has since earmarked more than half a trillion dollars for the armed forces over the next decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The cartoon turned the dynamic into an armed raid by cereal characters, but the basic instinct — watch a useful moral vocabulary become commercially useful — was already recognizable.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
The men’s boots crunched patches of snow as they approached a wooden shed guarded by armed soldiers.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
Civil rights organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union accused the department of attempting to intimidate the public by arming agents with another use-of-force option.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
According to prosecutors, Allen spent his last minutes checking websites that covered Trump's whereabouts, arming himself, and posing for a selfie taken with a cellphone in the mirror of his room.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
Instead, Anthropic is letting cybersecurity specialists and engineers in the open-source community work with Mythos to use the model as a defensive weapon "sort of arming them ahead of time," Krieger explained.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
Marines have also practiced setting up a forward arming and refueling point on Yonaguni.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
"Wouldn't be worth the bother of arming myself. This is a tourna-ment of gnats."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
