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arm

[ahrm] / ɑrm /






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Once on the surface, it will deploy a robotic arm and two samplers to grab some moon dust.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

“This is one area we’re not quite confident in,” Pinkerton said as we watched the robot attempt to align a glass on the dishwasher’s prongs with motions suggestive of a claw-machine arm.

From MarketWatch ● 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 has also examined whistleblower allegations that Guggenheim’s asset-management arm might have artificially boosted revenue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

He groaned, throwing an arm over his face.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

"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

As she leans to the side, testing the strength of her cage, the arms bend but never break.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Ukrainian arms producers may also seek buyers outside NATO.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Initially, the idea was just to have a huge warehouse with robot arms collecting lots of data autonomously,” co-founder Alexander Koch told me over a video call.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

I slide down the front of my locker and wrap my arms around my knees.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

In some cases this means panic buttons and armed private security forces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 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

Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi has alleged he was abducted by armed men and handed over "hooded and bound" to FBI agents, who had a plane waiting to fly him out of the country.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 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

She managed to glide to earth and made a crash landing on a hillside, where local people greeted her armed with pitchforks, sticks, and rifles—they’d thought her falling plane might be a German fighter.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Civil rights organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union accused the department of attempting to intimidate the public by arming agents with another use-of-force option.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

Marines have also practiced setting up a forward arming and refueling point on Yonaguni.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

About twenty thousand American soldiers were stationed in South Vietnam, arming and training the military.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin


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