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With several powerful groups refusing to disarm, senior politicians have intervened and are now hoping to work out a compromise deal.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

“But candidates like Talarico are changing that. His theological acumen and keen ability to use the language of the New Testament to disarm bad-faith religious attacks is showing a new way forward.”

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

Under the Lebanon-Israel framework, Hezbollah is expected to disarm, Israeli forces to withdraw gradually from southern Lebanon and the Lebanese army to deploy across the area.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The negotiations also cover a framework agreed in mid-June, under which Hezbollah is expected to disarm, the Lebanese army to deploy in the south and Israeli forces to withdraw gradually, beginning with designated "pilot zones".

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

She didn’t need to decimate them, all she needed to do was disarm them and keep them off balance.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

He has grown increasingly frustrated with the Sudanese military, which refuses to engage in a peace process unless the RSF disarms and withdraws from the territory it has occupied.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

This momentarily disarms Vytas and Marija, but afterward we see them sobbing quietly in separate rooms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

"Our approach is to use a particular type of phage that disarms the bacteria. We remove their ability to exchange drug-resistance genes or to move around by breaking off this appendage."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024

Statham ... remains unflappable, which is why he charms as he disarms with his patented deadpanning and action moves.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2023

She disarms me with this bit of truth.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi

The justice minister praised the "brave people who disarmed the attacker", referring to a group of people who can be seen intervening in a video of the incident circulated online.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

It even looks like if anyone fired Pretti’s gun, it was a federal agent who had disarmed him and accidentally shot it into the pavement.

From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2026

The U.S. had hoped finding a solution for the Rafah fighters could also serve as a model for how Hamas could be peacefully disarmed, the Arab officials and a U.S. official said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

Any skeptic would find themselves disarmed by her soft smile and twinkling voice, and her tendency to address everyone as “angel.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

Audrey took a couple of steps toward her car and disarmed the alarm.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

A man who was hailed a hero for disarming one of the Bondi Beach shooters in December has had assault charges against him dropped by police.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Fruit seller Ahmed al Ahmed was hailed as a hero after footage showed him disarming a gunman during the December 14 attack, which killed 15 people at a Jewish festival.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

These sorts of surprises bloom from the center of Olivia Wilde’s latest directorial effort, “The Invite,” a chamber comedy that’s equal parts droll and disarming.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

In photographs from the era, de la Espriella sits in a small town where the leaders of the group had gathered to fight extradition efforts and get government benefits in exchange for disarming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

His smile could be magically disarming but his head was crowded with practicality and genius.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez