arming

Definition of armingnext
present participle of arm

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for arming
Verb
  • Levy Restaurants was reportedly only preparing 200 for Sunday’s game day.
    Jayna Bardahl, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The agency is preparing to send four astronauts back to the Moon this March on a high-stakes, ten-day mission to the far side.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Sandoval was one of about 90 people who participated in a January 2026 whistle-kit building event with the aim of setting up and fortifying a system to alert metro Detroit community members to the presence of immigration agents.
    Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • In public, Newsom speaks often and openly about his errors, fortifying his image as a bumptious, slightly hapless victim of his own enthusiasms.
    Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Households with incomes under $75,000 are allocating less on discretionary categories like travel and experiences than in 2019, while those above $150,000 are allotting more, according to a Bank of America report released last month.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
  • For years, Marley has been allotting a portion of his concert ticket sales for charity issues.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Yost's lawsuit accuses the companies of agreeing to purchase one another's products or allocating shelf space for those products to give themselves a competitive advantage over smaller marijuana businesses.
    Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Instead of mining crypto, companies are starting to pivot, according to Bloomberg, allocating their hardware to powering AI models instead of mining crypto.
    Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 5 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Like other participants, the Mantic AI had to answer 60 questions by assigning probabilities to certain outcomes.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
  • If, as seems to be generally accepted, the Biden administration allowed some 15 million immigrants into the country, assigning 1,000 judges to their hearings and having each hear five cases a day would result in the process taking about 10 years to complete.
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
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“Arming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arming. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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