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Last year the PKK announced plans to disband and disarm, following a call from its jailed founder and longtime leader Ocalan.

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

A senior Hamas official has told the BBC they have agreed to the Board of Peace's plan to completely disarm in Gaza and that an official statement will be released soon.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Zaidi has also ordered them to disarm and put their members under state control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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

Back in the room, I knew I was in for a Stern Dad talking-to, so I did my best to disarm him before he could start in on me.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

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

“The honesty of it disarms you at every turn.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 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

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

It has said the campaign will continue until Hezbollah is disarmed.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 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

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

If it did, all of the hidden traps I’d disarmed would reset themselves, and the treasure and magic items would reappear.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

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

Visions of disarming bombs and wrestling alligators sweep through my mind.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston