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
  • At the pro level, the stakes are too high to not keep up the arms race.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Over time the agreements slowed the arms race from a gallop to a jog.
    — Jessica T. Mathews, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2020
  • 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
  • In this arms race, AI is being weaponized by both sides.
    — Abhishek Gandotra, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • College sports might have a new arms race on its hands.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Squid eyes have evolved and adapted over time as a deep-sea arms race.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2025
  • That’s the goal of the latest weapon in the green arms race: biodegradability.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Fancy Bear,’’ was locked in an arms race with the email giant.
    — Raphael Satter, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2018
  • 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 ballot-box arms race, then, hinges on the fate of SB-5 — and on Polis’ veto pen.
    — Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Experts say a Cold War–style space arms race could be on the horizon.
    — Beatrice Dupuy, Teen Vogue, 10 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Will the fight against spoofing always be an arms race?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • More places would help de-escalate the test-prep arms race.
    — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
  • These chips are at the heart of the AI arms race and the goal of the export curbs is to prevent China from keeping up.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • But the Cold War with the Soviet Union was leading to a massive arms race.
    — William Lambers, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Since Trump’s election, both parties have been in an arms race.
    — Ben Wikler, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2022
  • While Further’s current slate leans feature-heavy, the real winners of this arms race will be the ones who look past film and TV.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 23 June 2025
  • The world's nuclear stockpiles have been decreasing over the past few decades as non-proliferation agreements and treaties took hold after the end of the arms race during the Cold War.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 14 June 2025

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