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forearm

[fawr-ahrm, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌɑrm, ˈfoʊr- /
NOUN
elbow to wrist
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To study the process directly in people, the researchers gave healthy volunteers a tiny injection of UV-killed E. coli bacteria in the forearm.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

On the new footage, Williams touches the ball with his left arm then his right forearm before it goes into the net.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Emblazoned on his outer forearm is a menacing portrait of Tony Montana from the 1983 film “Scarface.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Another man had a shallot tattooed on his forearm, suggesting either a career behind the line or an allium devotion I could not hope to match.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

He still hadn’t let go of me; his fingers were wrapped around my forearm like a loose bracelet.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

The company has had issues designing its robots’ hands and forearms, as well as sourcing parts.

From MarketWatch Dec. 26, 2025

I told the farmworkers how after only two days of work last week, my lower back and my forearms ached.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 30, 2025

The hands are driven by motors that are packed into forearms the size of coffee cans.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 25, 2025

Breaking his fall with two hands on the turf, cuffs of his baggy blue keeper's jersey halfway up his forearms and long black curls flowing behind him, Higuita immediately burst into his iconic grin.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2025

She leaned on the driver's side of the car, crossing her forearms on the window sill.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

But to be forewarned is to be forearmed.

From Science Daily Jan. 17, 2024

The emotional charge of seeing their top scorer felled by a forearmed shot behind the action from their opponent’s star defenseman seemed to catapult the already surging Kraken to an entirely different level of play.

From Seattle Times Apr. 24, 2023

If to be forewarned is to be forearmed, then the country, and D.C., should be on notice about what lies ahead unless steps are taken now to deal with potential dangers.

From Washington Post Mar. 31, 2023

And mind you, while knowing ahead of time may change nothing about the court's decision,, forewarned is indeed forearmed.

From Salon May 5, 2022

These unexpected jolts from Larsen were difficult to prepare for, but Bobby’s continuous study of the old masters left him relatively forearmed.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

This, after all, is a woman who dislocated her shoulder three years ago while forearming a raccoon off her deck to protect her Labrador retriever.

From New York Times Aug. 25, 2011

One of the smug assumptions of the cold war era was that the U.S. was forearming itself with a stockpile of strategically scarce commodities to see it through a wartime siege.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had a presentiment that in this way God was forearming him for some extraordinary trial; and the loss of his wife seemed to him most likely to be that trial.

From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss

"Forewarning," she said gloomily, "is a torture when forearming avails naught."

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller




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