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arm·s race

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  1. arms racenoun

    a competition between nations to have the most powerful armaments

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  1. Brent Mittelstadt:

    It’s an arms race.

  2. Secretary Frank Kendall:

    It’s an arms race that has been going on for quite some time, the Chinese have been at it very aggressively.

  3. Erik Tihelka:

    I find it fascinating that we may owe the glow of fireflies to an ancient predator-prey arms race with the dinosaurs.

  4. Donald Trump:

    The deal's sunset provisions are totally unacceptable. If I allowed this deal to stand, there would soon be a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Everyone would want their weapons ready by the time Iran had theirs.

  5. Sir Winston Churchill:

    If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.


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