heavily armed

idiom

: carrying many dangerous weapons
a group of heavily armed men

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During the perp walk, Mangione was surrounded by heavily armed officers during a slow escort. Jared Gans, The Hill, 23 Dec. 2024 Advertisement The city’s mayor and top police official stood among a throng of heavily armed officers last Thursday when Mangione was flown to a Manhattan heliport and slowly escorted up a pier after being extradited from Pennsylvania. Michael R. Sisak and Jake Offenhartz, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024 The day after Luigi Mangione was indicted for murder, 200 top American CEOs came together, under heavily armed protection, in a bold statement of defiance of the populist fringes, not frightened away or intimidated for standing up for leadership and American character. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024 On Thursday, Kenyan and Haitian officers engaged in a firefight with heavily armed gangs near the former National Police headquarters, a site previously abandoned due to gang encroachment. Shannon McDonagh, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for heavily armed 

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“Heavily armed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heavily%20armed. Accessed 9 Jan. 2025.

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