forearm
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Your hand and forearm strength can be important to everyday functions, like opening a jar or turning a key in a difficult lock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Technically it’s a measure of the force produced by your forearm and hand muscles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
His missing forearm prevented him from immediately returning to his previous occupation as a weaver.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Bankes believed the proof on the angles he had available came from the ripple of Williams' shirt as the ball touched his right forearm.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
When Mom turns back to us, her eyes fall to Emery's forearm.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
The company has had issues designing its robots’ hands and forearms, as well as sourcing parts.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 26, 2025
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
Saffanah had her lower legs and forearms amputated in March at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary as a result of compartment syndrome.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2025
His sleeves were rolled up, and I noticed for the first time that his forearms were freckled, too.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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
If to be forewarned is to be forearmed, then the country, and D.C., should be on notice about what lies ahead unless steps are taken now to deal with potential dangers.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023
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
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
"Forewarning," she said gloomily, "is a torture when forearming avails naught."
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
