How to Use arms race in a Sentence
arms race
noun-
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 -
This is an arms race that no one can avoid being a part of.
— Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024 -
As soon as the world warmed up, all of life would have had to compete in an arms race to adapt.
— Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024 -
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 -
And who better to kick off this new arms race for talent?
— Kate Aurthur, Variety, 3 Nov. 2021 -
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 -
That year, President Kennedy came to see a way out of the looming arms race.
— New York Times, 30 Oct. 2021 -
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 -
The world is at the start of a new, undeclared nuclear arms race.
— Serhii Plokhy, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021 -
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 -
Biden’s secret shift this year does not yet amount to launching such an arms race.
— Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2024 -
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 -
We’re locked in a thousands-year-long arms race with German roaches.
— Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2024 -
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 -
The broadcasters engaged in this arms race are, arguably, fighting the last war.
— Jody Rosen, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023 -
Today, college kids see the company as a potential place to get in on the AI arms race.
— Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024 -
What was really bleeding the Soviet Union dry was the arms race.
— David A. Andelman, CNN, 31 Aug. 2022 -
Ronald Reagan brokered agreements with Moscow to slow the arms race.
— Dan Caldwell, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2024 -
The absence of a dedicated facility used to be a common experience for WNBA players across the league; however, the recent ownership arms race has led to most teams building their own facilities.
— Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
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