arm
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The fund also ran the numbers on other, less-pessimistic scenarios, including one in which AI gives the global economy a major shot in the arm, without signaling which outcome it thinks is more likely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Hopefully when his right arm tightens up, he’ll step out of the box.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
"It's a possible fracture of the arm but he's going to go for scans and we're not going to make a call on him right now where he's at," said Jones.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Riyadh on Thursday accused Iran of encouraging the escalation, saying it continued to arm and train the group.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
“He can read,” Ma says gently, touching Father’s arm.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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"We would carry someone out of the forest but they were so frail that they would die in our arms," explained Salim Karisa, one of the gravediggers.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Rosalía’s backing troupe wear black, so they disappear in the stage lighting—all except for their arms, popping out of the gloom in long white gloves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
“Elevated mortgage rates have pushed home shoppers straight into the arms of rentals,” Kara Ng, a senior economist at Zillow, said in the report.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026
Stupnikov was sitting in the Mykilske command post one day in June when his commander suddenly threw up his arms in exasperation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Spying an empty bus shelter on the opposite side of the street, I sit on the icy metal bench and wrap my arms tight around my calves, rest my forehead on my knees.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Its operations span more than 100 countries and territories, providing both armed and unarmed security guards as well as different types of security technology across industries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
The Israeli military said at the time that armed fighters had fired on the soldiers, who had "fired back at a suspect who observed" them, and that the details of the incident were under review.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
About the size of a large tiger and armed with enormous curved claws, the animal roamed what is now Britain approximately 120 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Grynkewich elaborated what he called his "theory of victory" to defeat an armed attack on the alliance as worries surge over what Western officials call a "hybrid" campaign of sabotage and interference by Moscow.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
The host of the Horned King was like the body of an armed giant restlessly stirring.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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Sathit, a shop-owner with more than 40 guns in his collection, cited the weakness of law enforcement in Thailand as his reason for arming himself.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
American drone operators lack experience fixing and arming drones under fire, said the person present at the exercise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The center increased its security and began arming its security after the mosque attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Instead, Anthropic is letting cybersecurity specialists and engineers in the open-source community work with Mythos to use the model as a defensive weapon "sort of arming them ahead of time," Krieger explained.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
Volpe, it seems to me, is always subtly arming his students with qualities and skills that do not come to them naturally.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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