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France’s great heroine, described as a liberator on the pedestal of her statue in Meridian Hill Park, has been rendered weaponless.

From Washington Post Sep. 17, 2018

Although currently weaponless, the Sea Hunter, which can navigate autonomously, is a “fighting ship,” Work said, part of the Navy’s future “human-machine collaborative battle fleet.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 11, 2018

“My thighs look as though they’ve been attacked by an enraged but weaponless toddler,” she writes after a day of garlic picking.

From New York Times Feb. 20, 2012

Of all the ways I thought I might die in Baghdad, I thought, who knew it would be weaponless in the slowest car chase in history?

From Time Oct. 11, 2010

Lord Asriel stood back to let it open, and then stepped in again, showing his open, weaponless hands, turning his head a little to let the moonlight fall clearly on his face.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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