forearm
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He has worn a sleeve on his forearm in subsequent workouts on his home courts in Murcia and has been practising with Holger Rune in recent weeks.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Another man had a shallot tattooed on his forearm, suggesting either a career behind the line or an allium devotion I could not hope to match.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
The longtime CIA operative had exfiltrated the families of spies from the most repressive of Middle Eastern regimes and tattooed the word “ARGONAUT,” an homage to seafaring heroes from Greek mythology, across his right forearm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Solemnly, some placed their hands on his shoulder or forearm.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
His hands are dirty, and he swipes away long cords of black hair spilling in front of his eyes with his forearm.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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
Saffanah had her lower legs and forearms amputated in March at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary as a result of compartment syndrome.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2025
His sleeves were rolled up, and I noticed for the first time that his forearms were freckled, too.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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
If to be forewarned is to be forearmed, then the country, and D.C., should be on notice about what lies ahead unless steps are taken now to deal with potential dangers.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023
When it comes to tick-borne illness, forewarned is forearmed.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 7, 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 Elizabeth Miller
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
