How to Use arms race in a Sentence

arms race

noun
Definition of arms racenext
  • In the voice assistant arms race, the frontrunner may be about to finish last.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 13 June 2024
  • Some experts predict that the war in Ukraine will trigger a worldwide arms race.
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The arms race among services has led to an unprecedented boom in production.
    — Erich Schwartzel, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Russia and China are pushing the world toward a new nuclear arms race.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • For decades, colleges have engaged in an amenities arms race—advertising free laptops and state-of-the-art gyms to woo prospective students.
    — Emma Whitford, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • A little patience can make a big difference, even in the ongoing arms race of elaborately appalling kill scenes.
    — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 31 May 2024
  • Foellmer says this study illustrates how cannibalism can spark an evolutionary arms race between the sexes.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The numbers underscore the arms race between attackers and defenders as each attempts to outdo the other.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Even with what seems like an advantage in the arms race, Bourguet isn’t taking his position for granted and is zeroing in on himself.
    — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2022
  • For Delta, which has been part of an arms race with rivals to lavish planes and airports with more premium features, the new lounge is a formidable luxury—and more are on the way.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 27 June 2024
  • That leaves the market itself, which ultimately will decide the viability of an escalating arms race.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Venom is the product of a biological arms race over that time; as venom becomes more deadly, victims evolve more resistance, which in turn makes venom even deadlier.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2022
  • The roster is in desperate need of young talent, especially as the arms race in the AFC West reaches absurd levels.
    — Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Branco likens the Long Island coastline to an arms race.
    — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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