forearm
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Your hand and forearm strength can be important to everyday functions, like opening a jar or turning a key in a difficult lock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Technically it’s a measure of the force produced by your forearm and hand muscles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“I have one on my inner ankle, one on my forearm, one on my collarbone, one on my lower back of a cat reading ‘Bunny’ and one on my thigh,” Grondine says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Then, in 1814, a musket ball smashed his left forearm.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Ayesha rests her hand on his forearm for a second.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
Use a spray bottle, for example, to mist water directly onto a person’s face, neck and forearms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Cylindrical "forearms" house small electric motors, known as actuators, which pull on metal tendons that move the fingers with precision.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
The company has had issues designing its robots’ hands and forearms, as well as sourcing parts.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 26, 2025
The hands are driven by motors that are packed into forearms the size of coffee cans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
Juanita rested her forearms on the driver’s window and looked at the ear pendant.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
But to be forewarned is to be forearmed.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024
The emotional charge of seeing their top scorer felled by a forearmed shot behind the action from their opponent’s star defenseman seemed to catapult the already surging Kraken to an entirely different level of play.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
The cartoonist also arrives forearmed with an enthusiastic knowledge of Popeye’s history.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
And mind you, while knowing ahead of time may change nothing about the court's decision,, forewarned is indeed forearmed.
From Salon ● May 5, 2022
These unexpected jolts from Larsen were difficult to prepare for, but Bobby’s continuous study of the old masters left him relatively forearmed.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
This, after all, is a woman who dislocated her shoulder three years ago while forearming a raccoon off her deck to protect her Labrador retriever.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2011
One of the smug assumptions of the cold war era was that the U.S. was forearming itself with a stockpile of strategically scarce commodities to see it through a wartime siege.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had a presentiment that in this way God was forearming him for some extraordinary trial; and the loss of his wife seemed to him most likely to be that trial.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss
"Forewarning," she said gloomily, "is a torture when forearming avails naught."
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
