arm
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Several wearable health trackers promise to provide a blood-pressure reading without the panic-inducing arm squeeze that comes with a visit to the doctor’s office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
You could barely see Mr. Brady at all: a skinny prospect with an average arm and no speed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, said it hoped the six-month delay meant "there is room for dialogue."
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Dodgers still don’t know what to reasonably expect from Ohtani, gritting out the postseason despite discomfort in his left knee and right arm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Unsteady, Caesar stretches his body, arm, trying to grasp the wood.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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But the war here is showing that the arms innovation cycle is relentless and cheap drones can become an equally dire problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Unusually for Vance on the campaign trail, he then went down to greet the crowd in person -- shaking hands, patting arms and meeting the lady with the black pro-Vance hat.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
The illness is characterized by muscle rigidity in the torso, arms and legs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
In this arms race, 20-year-olds now command pay rates that most Americans don’t reach at the peaks of their careers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Clare stretched out his arms, as if to say, All intact, though he flexed his paw where a quill had struck him.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s armed forces had received appropriate orders, although he did not specify what those instructions entailed.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
In the 1990s, a DJ had to not only pick the tracks, but also thread them together armed only with vinyl records, a pair of turntables and a mixer.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
But peace remains elusive in many parts of the world: 65 armed conflicts involving at least one state actor were registered in 2025, the highest number since 1946, according to PRIO.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Later he joined the international legion of Ukraine’s armed forces in 2022, after Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
It was at these meetings that Americans first learned that the four Soviet subs had been armed with nuclear torpedoes.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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According to Ms. Manning, his “expertise involved keeping soldier morale high, mainly by arming them with reading material—magazines, books, and comics.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
Now turn the clock back to 27 February, as American and Israeli forces were preparing to strike, arming their aircraft, briefing their crews and programming targets for their missiles.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 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
On February 26, after two Americans were drowned in the sinking of the British liner Laconia by a German submarine, Wilson asked Congress for permission to begin arming American merchant ships.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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