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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

This may be why James Agee, in his famous collaboration with Evans, “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” likened the camera “to unassisted and weaponless consciousness.”

From New York Times Jan. 3, 2017

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

He caught a brief glimpse of Piper leaping across a hopscotch pattern of fiery pits, making her way toward Nico, who was dazed and weaponless and being stalked by a pair of leopards.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan




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