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

Now, a proposed cap would pump the brakes—and students are up in arms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

"From our country, we are doing everything possible in the search and rescue of these brothers in arms," Diaz-Canel said.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Northern abolitionists like Ralph Waldo Emerson made Brown a martyr, and Southern loyalists got up in arms, quite literally, at the idea that this might be the start of a trend.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson