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disarm

[dis-ahrm] / dɪsˈɑrm /




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Zaidi, who took office in May, has vowed to disarm them and bring all weapons under state control following the coalition's exit.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Speaking to AFP, Aoun struck a conciliatory tone in his remarks on Hezbollah and the push to disarm it.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

She implemented wry wit like a tactical defense, a trusty tool in her arsenal that could disarm an opponent and defuse tricky conversations.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Under the departing President Gustavo Petro, a former leftist guerrilla, the government embarked on simultaneous peace negotiations with about a dozen narco-trafficking groups to urge them to disarm and abandon drug smuggling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Both Ron and Hermione had tried to disarm Snape at exactly the same moment.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

He has grown increasingly frustrated with the Sudanese military, which refuses to engage in a peace process unless the RSF disarms and withdraws from the territory it has occupied.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

The agreement requires the Lebanese state to take back control of its territory a little at a time as it disarms and dismantles the militant group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Thanks to his table tennis prowess, Béla disarms bombs for the Nazis in the woods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

"Our approach is to use a particular type of phage that disarms the bacteria. We remove their ability to exchange drug-resistance genes or to move around by breaking off this appendage."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024

She disarms me with this bit of truth.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi

In that process, the Irish Republican Army and its allies disarmed more than seven years after the 1998 signing of the Good Friday Agreement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Pope Leo has presented the first major teaching document of his papacy, warning that artificial intelligence needs to be "disarmed".

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

Wearing cowboy boots and a handlebar mustache, he had a Texas twang and a quiet, calm presence that disarmed suspects, eliciting confessions.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

After Ahmed disarmed Akram, footage showed a man in a white shirt and a black hat running at the gunman and throwing an object at him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Now, there has never been a time when a new prince disarmed his subjects.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

She was a disarming contradiction: manufactured and utterly sincere.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

A man who was hailed a hero for disarming one of the Bondi Beach shooters in December has had assault charges against him dropped by police.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Fruit seller Ahmed al Ahmed was hailed as a hero after footage showed him disarming a gunman during the December 14 attack, which killed 15 people at a Jewish festival.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

These sorts of surprises bloom from the center of Olivia Wilde’s latest directorial effort, “The Invite,” a chamber comedy that’s equal parts droll and disarming.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

It was disarming how he’d disappeared from the corner of the cave only to reappear directly in front of me in the beat of a second.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall


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