How to Use arms race in a Sentence

arms race

noun
Definition of arms racenext
  • Modern medicine and bacterial pathogens are in an arms race.
    — Sarah Vitak, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Insurers are now in a digital arms race to catalyze revenue and growth.
    — Chris Blatchly, Forbes, 6 July 2021
  • It’s all part of the financial arms race within college athletics.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Such a judicial arms race, the justice said, could undercut public faith in the court and imperil the rule of law.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • In the arms race between biology and biotechnology, the weeds are winning.
    — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • But infrastructure and data centers could decide the final winner of the AI arms race.
    — Grace Shao, Fortune Asia, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Inside these microscopic bacterial pool parties, humans might just find an upper hand in the arms race against the superbugs.
    — Sarah Vitak, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Morgan Stanley set off an arms race in 2020 with its planned acquisition of Eaton Vance.
    — Dawn Lim, WSJ, 14 July 2021
  • Florida State, Clemson or even Big Ten schools could bring in more money in the future as the arms race among leagues continues.
    — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 28 July 2021
  • That’s up from around four percent today, a steep increase experts attribute in part to Big Tech’s brewing generative AI arms race.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Moving ahead on this front, despite their deep differences on other issues, reflects the high priority that Putin and Biden place on avoiding a new nuclear arms race.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2021
  • State unemployment agencies, burdened by aging technologies and siloed databases that don’t effectively communicate with each other, have been unable to keep up with any sort of arms race.
    — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 26 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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

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