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forearm

[fawr-ahrm, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌɑrm, ˈfoʊr- /
NOUN
elbow to wrist
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In September 2025, Larry Graves reported to animal services that the dog had bitten him multiple times in the right knee, chest and left forearm outside of a CVS store in Oxnard.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 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

In October 2023, Manunya tattooed a Kalashnikov assault rifle onto the forearm of a colleague.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

Solemnly, some placed their hands on his shoulder or forearm.

From Barron's Apr. 3, 2026

The snake began to coil itself around her forearm.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

Cylindrical "forearms" house small electric motors, known as actuators, which pull on metal tendons that move the fingers with precision.

From BBC Feb. 12, 2026

Tesla last year reportedly scrapped plans to build thousands of units for internal use and has had difficulties designing the robots’ hands and forearms, as well as sourcing parts.

From MarketWatch Jan. 22, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 25, 2025

In wheel throwing, it’s important to anchor your elbows to your hips, forearms to the splash pan and thighs to the outside of your wheel — I didn’t do any of that.

From Salon May 25, 2025

Though she was barely an inch over five feet tall, her arms were massive with thick, knotted biceps and her forearms were threaded with protruding veins and hard sinew.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

The cartoonist also arrives forearmed with an enthusiastic knowledge of Popeye’s history.

From Washington Post Jun. 3, 2022

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

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

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

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




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