- present tense form of arm (3rd person singular).
arms
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Musk’s various companies already operate as arms of Musk Inc. — Tesla reported selling $430 million in Megapacks, a commercial-scale battery, to his xAI and SpaceX and $143 million in vehicles to SpaceX last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
So Beijing’s likely play, according to Yun Sun, director of the China program at Washington-based Stimson Center, is to push back on the arms control framing and see whether Washington insists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
In 1949 Irène sold the painting to Emil Georg Bührle, a Swiss industrialist who had supplied arms to the Third Reich.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
He was cradled in her arms - his eyes wide and his cheeks sunken.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
I zoom in on a group of church ladies with big hats and Bibles tucked under their arms.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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