arm
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“Those investors stood to acquire a permanent financial interest in FIFA’s commercial arm for $4.2 billion, implying an absurdly low enterprise value of only approximately $20 billion,” the filing added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
AI software can identify each open blossom and direct a robotic arm — or a worker — to release pollen with the precision needed to avoid deformed fruit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
There is also evidence that, almost simultaneously, another arm of the federal government was allowing inexpensive wild horses to enter a chain that could end at foreign slaughterhouses.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Tumbling oil prices this week gave a brief shot in the arm to the Treasury Department’s latest efforts to lower yields on long-dated U.S. government bonds.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
He was shorter in the arm, but pure gristle.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
“Mother Night! Fold your dark arms about me. Protect me in your black embrace!”
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Noah Brier gets us up to speed on the state of artificial intelligence right now; from the A.I. arms race with China to the probability that we are all doomed.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
Her arms today are as colorful as Ruby’s notebooks: a collage of her favorite animals and objects, reproductions of her drawings, flowers in the shape of her handprint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
For many, an inquest provides the key interaction with the arms of the state at a time of trauma.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Maryke de Graaf, a Dutch woman on the tier above ours, helped me form a cradle with our arms and carry Betsie outside.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
One lawyer told the BBC that three armed men approached his vehicle, identified themselves, and instructed him to leave the area.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The group said there had also been a "significant increase in the presence of unidentified speed boats linked to different armed groups in Libya".
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Second, to sustain and enhance support for Yemen’s armed forces and coast guard and to continue our counterterrorism cooperation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
At the start of the war its armed forces relied on old Cold War-era Soviet weaponry.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
What if his country needed him to prevent some other armed conflict?
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
Civil rights organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union accused the department of attempting to intimidate the public by arming agents with another use-of-force option.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
By arming her mammies with revolvers, rifles and bullets, Saar turned a symbol of servility into one of militancy and power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Some AI-safety campaigners—many of whom already worry that AI systems will escape human control and turn on their creators—argue that arming AI would only accelerate the danger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Now turn the clock back to 27 February, as American and Israeli forces were preparing to strike, arming their aircraft, briefing their crews and programming targets for their missiles.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
And that’s how I feel, that I’m arming myself for entering the world of the successful and wealthy, mastering skills that even the Doctorita and Nino Carlitos don’t know.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
