in arms

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If talks ultimately resume between Washington and Beijing on AI, experts believe the negotiations would be far more complex than those that resulted in arms control agreements governing nuclear weapons in the Cold War.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

“This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

And this isn’t the early IRGC, with its “brotherhood in arms and no ranks,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

The teams were up in arms and complained.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

At nine years old they towered nine fathoms tall, nine cubits in the shoulders, and they promised furor upon Olympos, heaven broken by battle cries, the day they met the gods in arms.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer