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armory

[ahr-muh-ree] / ˈɑr mə ri /
NOUN
military building, usually for storing weapons
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Their armory is formidable; their cash supply, a source of comic relief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Six weeks earlier, Brown had raided the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, in what was then Virginia, aiming to foment a slave insurrection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

His band quickly took control of a federal armory and rifle factory in the sleeping town of Harpers Ferry.

From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2026

The former armory, redesigned by Pritzker-winning architect Thom Mayne, now has classrooms and laboratories for Science Center educational programming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025

Mikkcn had given him a rusty old visoriess helm hum the armory, but Bran seldom troubled to wear it.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Gun restrictions in ports along the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman mean security companies have to store their weapons offshore on floating armories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

The mobilized Marines and National Guard troops “will be stationed all across Los Angeles ... that includes Seal Beach, Los Alamitos and a number of National Guard armories across the city,” Guillot said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025

As water drained from the dam and flooded a 50-mile stretch of the Dnieper, Ukrainian territory along the western banks was swallowed up wholesale—farms, gas stations, land mines, armories, factories, houses, railroad tracks, forests.

From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2023

Forged in the high school gyms, skating rinks, community halls, National Guard armories and rowdy dance halls of the region, the Northwest Sound evolved incrementally, by trial and error.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

From pole to pole, IOI-1 was covered with armories, bunkers, warehouses, and vehicle hangars.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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