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as in to demilitarize
to reduce the size and strength of the armed forces of
the defeated nation was disarmed so that it would never again be a threat to international order
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as in to appease
to lessen the anger or agitation of
her future father-in-law was totally disarmed by her easy charm
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Recent Examples of disarm
Israel's latest ceasefire proposal presented to Hamas included a willingness to negotiate a permanent end of the war, but on condition of a new demand that Hamas, and all militant groups in Gaza, be disarmed.
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Aya Batrawy, NPR, 15 Apr. 2025
Fabian can't hide his deeply shady side, but his obsessiveness about singing in front of the resort is disarming.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
Kilmer’s guilelessness in recounting his life so directly, without interruption, is disarming and perhaps a bit obfuscatory.
—Rachel Handler, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025
Katz's remarks came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated calls for Hamas to disarm and said the application of military pressure was the best way to get back the remaining 59 hostages.
—James MacKenzie, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
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Aya Batrawy, NPR, 15 Apr. 2025
Fabian can't hide his deeply shady side, but his obsessiveness about singing in front of the resort is disarming.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
Kilmer’s guilelessness in recounting his life so directly, without interruption, is disarming and perhaps a bit obfuscatory.
—Rachel Handler, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025
Katz's remarks came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated calls for Hamas to disarm and said the application of military pressure was the best way to get back the remaining 59 hostages.
—James MacKenzie, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
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Similarly, pausing attacks on energy infrastructure is clearly more advantageous to Russia, as is demilitarizing the Black Sea, given Russia’s dependence on the waterway and the Russian Navy’s extreme – and one-sided – vulnerability to Ukrainian attacks.—
Douglas Schoen,
Orange County Register,
20 Mar. 2025
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The outcome that Putin wants would be a Ukraine that is permanently stripped of almost 25 percent of its territory, demilitarized, and barred from joining the EU and NATO.—
STEPHEN HADLEY,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Mar. 2025
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The key lesson of Munich is that appeasing aggressive authoritarian regimes in the hope of preserving peace emboldens them to pursue even greater acts of expansion and violence.—
Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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The compromise appeased Luna, but not the Democratic sponsors of the underlying legislation — Reps. Brittany Pettersen (Colo.) and Sara Jacobs (Calif.) — who are accusing Johnson of watering down their parental-empowerment proposal while abandoning lawmakers with young families.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
8 Apr. 2025
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Research documents how political violence leads to political repression and demobilizes social movements.—
Dana R. Fisher,
Scientific American,
27 Mar. 2025
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Demilitarizing the economy and demobilizing the public would risk undermining the system that sustains his rule.—
Andrei Kolesnikov,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Disarm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disarm. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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