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With several powerful groups refusing to disarm, senior politicians have intervened and are now hoping to work out a compromise deal.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The negotiations also cover a framework agreed in mid-June, under which Hezbollah is expected to disarm, the Lebanese army to deploy in the south and Israeli forces to withdraw gradually, beginning with designated "pilot zones".

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

She implemented wry wit like a tactical defense, a trusty tool in her arsenal that could disarm an opponent and defuse tricky conversations.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 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

She didn’t need to decimate them, all she needed to do was disarm them and keep them off balance.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

He has grown increasingly frustrated with the Sudanese military, which refuses to engage in a peace process unless the RSF disarms and withdraws from the territory it has occupied.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

This momentarily disarms Vytas and Marija, but afterward we see them sobbing quietly in separate rooms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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

Statham ... remains unflappable, which is why he charms as he disarms with his patented deadpanning and action moves.

From Salon ● Mar. 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

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

Previously we cited Ahmed al-Ahmed, the Muslim passerby who disarmed a terrorist for a time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

His nervousness was palpable, and it disarmed her.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

It’s a message crafted with such disarming simplicity that, at first, it reads as obvious, even hackneyed.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

In photographs from the era, de la Espriella sits in a small town where the leaders of the group had gathered to fight extradition efforts and get government benefits in exchange for disarming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

When the rage had passed and he had come to himself he would show a most disarming penitence and agree humbly to any punishment it was proposed to inflict on him.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton