disarm
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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
After months of marathon talks, Hamas has, for the first time, accepted a framework of the Board of Peace's plan to completely disarm in Gaza.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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
A core objective has been persuading Colombia’s armed groups to disarm in exchange for largely unspecified benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
She follows me to the door, so I turn and kiss salaams on her cheeks, to disarm her from further questions.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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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
“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
When it plays like a hobbyist’s hidden art project come to peculiar life, it entertains and disarms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
She disarms me with this bit of truth.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
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German police recently disarmed an explosive-laden drone discovered near a Ukrainian cargo plane at an airport in eastern Germany.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The justice minister praised the "brave people who disarmed the attacker", referring to a group of people who can be seen intervening in a video of the incident circulated online.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 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
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
By now, the Brazen Beasts should have disarmed Steelskin.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
But the music journalist persisted, disarming the musician by presenting him with some guitar picks that had belonged to Cliff Gallup, one of Beck’s early rockabilly heroes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 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
In any case, every so often, she lets out a laugh that is so mischievous and exalting, or makes a joke that is completely disarming in its self-deprecation, and we all feel like we’ve won.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
He responded at once by presenting himself at her home with all his disarming naivet£.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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