heavily armed

idiom

: carrying many dangerous weapons
a group of heavily armed men

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China has dismissed the ruling as invalid and continues to send its heavily armed coast guard, naval warships, and paramilitary maritime militia hundreds of miles from its coast to enforce its claims. Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025 But Rubio, recognizing that the current multinational security mission led by Kenya is not large enough to take on heavily armed gangs, is trying to drum up support in the region for funding that would allow the mission to expand. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2025 An opposition official described 20 heavily armed vehicles arriving at Machar's home where he was arrested alongside his wife. Arkansas Online, 28 Mar. 2025 The prosecutors’ claims come after Mangione’s lawyers have accused law enforcement of playing to the television cameras with Mangione’s dramatic perp walk off a helicopter and onto a Manhattan pier, flanked by heavily armed law enforcement personnel with New York Mayor Eric Adams trailing behind. Kara Scannell, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for heavily armed

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“Heavily armed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heavily%20armed. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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