disarmed

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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

Even if the regime doesn’t fall, it will be leaderless, impoverished, isolated, besieged, mostly disarmed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 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

That small act — his professionalism, his steadiness — disarmed me.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

Without a normally functioning liver the body would be disarmed — defenseless against the great variety of poisons that continually invade it.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson