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forearm

[fawr-ahrm, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌɑrm, ˈfoʊr- /
NOUN
elbow to wrist
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In October 2023, Manunya tattooed a Kalashnikov assault rifle onto the forearm of a colleague.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

"Following the match, a check-up at the hospital under the supervision of our medical team revealed that our player had a fracture in his right forearm, and a cast was applied," Galatasaray said.

From BBC Mar. 19, 2026

"It's been business as usual for us, we stay calm," said the smiling waitress, an octopus tattoo curling up her forearm.

From Barron's Mar. 10, 2026

Gyllenhaal says she went to a party and saw someone with a tattoo on their forearm of Elsa Lancaster‘s intense gaze from “Bride of Frankenstein.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 1, 2026

The impact nudged Otto forward enough to grab Sheed’s forearm.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Cylindrical "forearms" house small electric motors, known as actuators, which pull on metal tendons that move the fingers with precision.

From BBC Feb. 12, 2026

The company has had issues designing its robots’ hands and forearms, as well as sourcing parts.

From MarketWatch Dec. 26, 2025

The hands are driven by motors that are packed into forearms the size of coffee cans.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 25, 2025

In wheel throwing, it’s important to anchor your elbows to your hips, forearms to the splash pan and thighs to the outside of your wheel — I didn’t do any of that.

From Salon May 25, 2025

He had hands as large as shovels, and the forearms that came from his sleeves were strong as stone.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

But to be forewarned is to be forearmed.

From Science Daily Jan. 17, 2024

The emotional charge of seeing their top scorer felled by a forearmed shot behind the action from their opponent’s star defenseman seemed to catapult the already surging Kraken to an entirely different level of play.

From Seattle Times Apr. 24, 2023

When it comes to tick-borne illness, forewarned is forearmed.

From Scientific American Jul. 7, 2022

The cartoonist also arrives forearmed with an enthusiastic knowledge of Popeye’s history.

From Washington Post Jun. 3, 2022

These unexpected jolts from Larsen were difficult to prepare for, but Bobby’s continuous study of the old masters left him relatively forearmed.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

This, after all, is a woman who dislocated her shoulder three years ago while forearming a raccoon off her deck to protect her Labrador retriever.

From New York Times Aug. 25, 2011

One of the smug assumptions of the cold war era was that the U.S. was forearming itself with a stockpile of strategically scarce commodities to see it through a wartime siege.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Forewarning," she said gloomily, "is a torture when forearming avails naught."

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

He had a presentiment that in this way God was forearming him for some extraordinary trial; and the loss of his wife seemed to him most likely to be that trial.

From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by Prentiss, George L.




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