How to Use arms race in a Sentence

arms race

noun

• America will lag in an arms race while others pull ahead.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• Across the region, countries are engaged in their own quiet arms race to avoid being left behind.
  — Ben Westcott and Eric Cheung, CNN, 19 Nov. 2021
• We are locked in an arms race with online platforms that use our behavior as a guide for driving engagement.
  — Carl T. Bergstrom, Scientific American, 29 July 2024
• In the past two decades, this premium on aesthetics has created a packaging arms race.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2021
• Beijing’s buildup is adding to a dangerous arms race across the Indo-Pacific.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2021
• And there are plenty of others after Nike ushered in a technological arms race.
  — Susan Baek, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
• The slow arms race Not every country allied with the US is seeking more military independence.
  — Ben Westcott and Eric Cheung, CNN, 19 Nov. 2021
• So Burr inked a deal with Hulu, the latest entrant to what’s quickly become an arms race for stand-up specials, one of few bright spots in an otherwise bleak entertainment landscape.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
• The spoils of this arms race will ultimately go to whoever eventually replaces Cratchit with a calculator or computer program.
  — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
• The need to control costs while attracting valuable, full-pay students encouraged huge expansion in the range of student services and intensification of the amenities arms race.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 28 Dec. 2021
• After teasing for a half-year about its next big play in the college sports name, image and likeness arms race, Learfield announced earlier this month a technological escalation.
  — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 20 June 2024
• On Capitol Hill, the conversation so far is largely about matching the Chinese investment, rather than rethinking the nature of the arms race.
  — New York Times, 28 Nov. 2021
• By this time, the Democrats had caught on and the arms race was joined.
  — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
• This, of course, is the dark side of the global streaming arms race.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 8 Sep. 2022
• The Celtics, left behind in the superteam arms race, seemed adrift.
  — New York Times, 12 June 2022
• The arrival of the shiny new chatbot kicked off an AI arms race.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
• To fail to pick up a rock, when the other caveman picked up a rock, did not forestall the arms race.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• The luxury arms race is not the only way to revive a mall.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
• There would be no obvious way out of a three-way arms race.
  — Charles L. Glaser, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2023
• With the war in Ukraine and the threat of a new arms race, the nuclear danger is increasing.
  — William Lambers, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2024
• Branco likens the Long Island coastline to an arms race.
  — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2023
• Since Trump’s election, both parties have been in an arms race.
  — Ben Wikler, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2022
• In the resulting arms race, the AI writing tools will always be one step ahead of the tools to detect AI text.
  — John Villasenor, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2023
• This fuels an arms race between a viral pathogen and its hosts.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• Kimball renounced war and took a stand against the nuclear arms race.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
• At the start of the nuclear age, rather than heed Oppenheimer’s warning on the dangers of an arms race, the U.S. fired the starting gun.
  — Senator Edward J. Markey, Scientific American, 27 July 2023
• Some experts predict that the war in Ukraine will trigger a worldwide arms race.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022
• The deal sets a new benchmark in the college sports arms race, which is based heavily on TV money.
  — Ralph D. Russo, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• In the voice assistant arms race, the frontrunner may be about to finish last.
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 13 June 2024
• The college football arms race has officially come to the NBA.
  — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024