disarmed
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Since Lebanon’s civil war ended in 1990, the army has disarmed various nonstate actors, played intermediary between rival political factions and has cracked down on drug smuggling and Islamist groups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
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
Wearing cowboy boots and a handlebar mustache, he had a Texas twang and a quiet, calm presence that disarmed suspects, eliciting confessions.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
More than 800 fighters from those two groups have been disarmed since July, according to the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSCA.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
His good humor disarmed them in the end, and they wound up spending the remainder of the summer on good terms.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
