arms race
noun
: a race between hostile nations to accumulate or develop weapons
broadly
: an ever escalating race or competition
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With other clubs assembling their own state-of-the-art facilities in a new women’s sports arms race, Angel City’s infrastructure could prove to be a necessary player recruitment tool.
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Dan Bernstein, Variety, 18 Feb. 2025
This was the clearest indication yet of the perpetual arms race between the Grand Slams.
—Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
Among the more entertaining subplots of the baseball offseason has been the escalating arms race among three future Hall of Famers who are near the end of their careers: Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer and Clayton Kershaw.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
Sam has not been tasked with dealing with the multiverse or traveling across alien galaxies — even as the corpse of a giant god-like creature from Eternals remains stuck in the Indian Ocean, triggering a worldwide arms race to extract its natural resources.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
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Dan Bernstein, Variety, 18 Feb. 2025
This was the clearest indication yet of the perpetual arms race between the Grand Slams.
—Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
Among the more entertaining subplots of the baseball offseason has been the escalating arms race among three future Hall of Famers who are near the end of their careers: Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer and Clayton Kershaw.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
Sam has not been tasked with dealing with the multiverse or traveling across alien galaxies — even as the corpse of a giant god-like creature from Eternals remains stuck in the Indian Ocean, triggering a worldwide arms race to extract its natural resources.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Arms race.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arms%20race. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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