How to Use arms race in a Sentence

arms race

noun
  • The arms race was more or less in balance.
    — Nir Bashan, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Now, a new arms race may ensue.
    — Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Squid eyes have evolved and adapted over time as a deep-sea arms race.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • This, of course, is the dark side of the global streaming arms race.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 8 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • This was the opening salvo in a red-carpet arms race.
    — Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
  • New Jersey has been playing catch-up in a tax-break arms race.
    — Andrew Rice, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Fancy Bear,’’ was locked in an arms race with the email giant.
    — Raphael Satter, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2018
  • The Celtics, left behind in the superteam arms race, seemed adrift.
    — New York Times, 12 June 2022
  • Hong Kong, instead, shouldn’t try to compete in that arms race.
    — Brian Wong, Fortune, 3 May 2026
  • There wasn’t an arms race at the top of each division, like in seasons past.
    — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • That set off an arms race for cartographers.
    — Michael Van Sickler, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2026
  • How does the redistricting arms race shake out?
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 3 Jan. 2026
  • This also explains the current arms race.
    — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The arrival of the shiny new chatbot kicked off an AI arms race.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The world is at the start of a new, undeclared nuclear arms race.
    — Serhii Plokhy, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
  • If the arms race between deep fakes and deep-fake detectors is any guide, that’ll be hard as well.
    — Bruce Schneier, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Experts say a Cold War–style space arms race could be on the horizon.
    — Beatrice Dupuy, Teen Vogue, 10 Apr. 2018
  • History suggests a new electoral arms race will take place.
    — ABC News, 6 May 2026
  • Naturally, the arms race is on.
    — Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • That year, President Kennedy came to see a way out of the looming arms race.
    — New York Times, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Unfortunately, there's a bit of an arms race.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
  • For years, the motorcycle industry has been caught in an arms race.
    — New Atlas, 6 July 2026
  • After all, the partisan stakes will be high in the midterms, and the media arms race is heating up.
    — Susan Crawford, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2018
  • So there's no doubt that there is sort of an arms race or a Cold War, like, pick your analogy.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024

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