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disarm

[dis-ahrm] / dɪsˈɑrm /




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After months of marathon talks, Hamas has, for the first time, accepted a framework of the Board of Peace's plan to completely disarm in Gaza.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Market watchers reacted with cautious optimism that Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups’ agreement to disarm could help unlock broader regional peace talks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Rubio meanwhile said in a statement that the agreement establishes a "clear and structured process" to disarm Hezbollah and its infrastructure, as well as a US-facilitated military working group to help implement the deal.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

But the Clement filing is genuinely consequential, and not just because it might disarm Carr’s primary regulatory weapon if it survives judicial review.

From Salon May 13, 2026

“How can you persuade a paranoid adversary to disarm ‘by example’?”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The agreement requires the Lebanese state to take back control of its territory a little at a time as it disarms and dismantles the militant group.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 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

“They want to be inspired. This film disarms people, because it is entertaining. It is funny. It’s dramatic.”

From Washington Times Aug. 3, 2023

Statham is less violent here than in previous Ritchie outings, but he 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

In that process, the Irish Republican Army and its allies disarmed more than seven years after the 1998 signing of the Good Friday Agreement.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 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

After Ahmed disarmed Akram, footage showed a man in a white shirt and a black hat running at the gunman and throwing an object at him.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 19, 2025

She was so fast he didn’t realize until too late that she’d disarmed him.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

But the music journalist persisted, disarming the musician by presenting him with some guitar picks that had belonged to Cliff Gallup, one of Beck’s early rockabilly heroes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

This begins with two small “pilot zones” the IDF will hand to the Lebanese Armed Forces, which are charged with disarming “non-state armed groups”—the preferred Lebanese euphemism for Hezbollah—and dismantling terror infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

The combination of thematic sincerity and confident visual sophistication makes for a strangely disarming, almost lyrical experience, closer to a poem than a film — a feeling amplified by the movie’s brisk length.

From Salon Jun. 2, 2026

Lebanese authorities have long argued that disarming Hezbollah cannot be imposed by force and would require negotiation with the group.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2026

Nye, whose normal voice is cuttingly nasal and naturally intimidating, was attempting a subdued timbre, a disarming, throwaway style.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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