as in armory
a place where military arms are stored
sent the ordnance officer to the arsenal for weapons
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Implementing terrorist designations, military strikes, and sky-high tariffs are not in that arsenal.
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Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
City and Chelsea has limitless funds and arsenal are generating large from commercial and matchday income.
—Jessy Parker Humphreys, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
The fact is that European countries, like their American ally thus far, spent nearly three years depleting their own arsenals and treasuries in the name of a fight for freedom and democracy that had felt to them existential as the Russian invasion began.
—Melissa Bell, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
General aviation airports are one of the most important tools in the Cal Fire arsenal.
—John Carr, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2025
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Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
City and Chelsea has limitless funds and arsenal are generating large from commercial and matchday income.
—Jessy Parker Humphreys, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
The fact is that European countries, like their American ally thus far, spent nearly three years depleting their own arsenals and treasuries in the name of a fight for freedom and democracy that had felt to them existential as the Russian invasion began.
—Melissa Bell, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
General aviation airports are one of the most important tools in the Cal Fire arsenal.
—John Carr, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for arsenal
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“Arsenal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arsenal. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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