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forearm

[fawr-ahrm, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌɑrm, ˈfoʊr- /
NOUN
elbow to wrist
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Tampa Bay Rays: Acquired from Baltimore at the trade deadline, swingman Tyler Wells posted a 1.50 earned-run-average before right forearm tightness sidelined him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

He’d been on the IL since May, first with a low-grade flexor strain in his left forearm, and then a shoulder impingement setback.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

His missing forearm prevented him from immediately returning to his previous occupation as a weaver.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

Bankes believed the proof on the angles he had available came from the ripple of Williams' shirt as the ball touched his right forearm.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

She came over and put a hand on his forearm.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

Tesla last year reportedly scrapped plans to build thousands of units for internal use and has had difficulties designing the robots’ hands and forearms, as well as sourcing parts.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025

Breaking his fall with two hands on the turf, cuffs of his baggy blue keeper's jersey halfway up his forearms and long black curls flowing behind him, Higuita immediately burst into his iconic grin.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 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

She keeps her hands on the bird, all the while listening, watching, until the zipper closes in around her forearms.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

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

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 George L. Prentiss

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

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




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