as in defense
means or method of defending be certain that all of your accusations are true, lest you just give them ammunition to claim that all of them are false

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Recent Examples of ammunition Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched the apartment on March 21 and found a bag with items including $1,000 in cash, a handgun with ammunition, a laptop and iPhone, according to court documents. Mike Snider, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025 Patrick Daley Thompson gives them further ammunition to argue that the false statements counts should not stand. Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025 Agents also allegedly found three additional firearms, ammunition and two suppressors. Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025 Authorities found multiple firearms and ammunition. Louis Casiano, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ammunition
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Noun
  • Lately, Feinberg has been investing in defense contractors, including satellite and drone companies.
    Dan Alexander, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Unfortunately, a defense contractor has stolen one of Gemma's early AI models for M3GAN.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
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  • Drones may quickly ring any static opponent with mines, penning them in. Counter-drone weapons and jammers can provide protection from direct drone attack and are likely to be ever more widely deployed.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Even though the European Union put basic data privacy protections into place in 2018, Congress has yet to pass a single bill limiting the widespread collection and use of our personal data in America.
    Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert, Time, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The emergence of prompt shields and spotlight prompting has arisen due to the various hacking efforts trying to get generative AI to go beyond its filters and usual protections.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The loot included a Twilight poster signed by stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner; signed Darth Vader and Stormtrooper helmets; and several signed Captain America shields.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Stay calm, keep your hands where officers can see them, and consider filming the interaction as unobtrusively as possible as a safeguard.
    Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 9 Apr. 2025
  • However, the reality is that the institutional DeFi opportunity is already stimulating innovation and industry development towards the kind of safeguards that institutions would demand.
    Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
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  • Its officials, though, have increasingly threatened to pursue a nuclear weapon.
    CBS News, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Major negative factors include Iran’s greater nuclear weapon capabilities, its shorter time frames to build nuclear weapons, and the growing normalization of internal Iranian discussions favoring building nuclear weapons.
    Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Then, when the puck came around the wall, his quick stick allowed the Blues to clear the zone.
    Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Some Republicans outside the House walls and familiar with the dramatics scoffed at leadership’s decision to recess early.
    Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 2 Apr. 2025

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“Ammunition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ammunition. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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