Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who disarms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who disarms.
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- noun A proponent of
disarmament
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
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Examples
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Reagan clearly seems fascinated by the prospect of becoming the great disarmer, which is what gives conservatives the willies.
American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009
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Jeremy Renner stars as a bomb disarmer in Iraq, who shocks his friends and colleagues with his fearlessness in deadly situations — but that may be a sign of a psychological breakdown and addiction to danger.
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Mizolwat - And doom't forget the disarmer behind your earners.
The Sea at Sea (or Why is There a Question Instead of Not a Question) 2010
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The off-the-cuff charmer and disarmer from the old Straight Talk Express was missing from the second debate, a town-hall format that was supposed to be the most comfortable setting for McCain.
The Great Debates 2008
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CHAREN: She ` s an Australian pediatrician who became incredibly influential during the 1980s as the leader of something called Physicians for Social Responsibility and she was an anti-nuclear, basically unilateral disarmer who was constantly framing things, as I said again with reference to Samantha Smith, in terms of our children and there are no communist babies.
Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First 2003
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But unless one is simply an adamant disarmer or thinks that nuclear weapons are totally irrelevant in light of America's current conventional and technological prowess, dropping the triad just does not make sense.
News 2011
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The chairman of the Joint Chiefs did provide one bit of advice at the end of his remarks on the Nuclear Posture Review - advice that the disarmer in chief would have been well advised to heed, but didn't: "Without such improvements, an aging nuclear force supported by a neglected infrastructure only invites enemy misbehavior and miscalculation."
The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines Frank J. Gaffney Jr. 2010
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Hare is a long-time unilateral nuclear disarmer and pacifist.
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Hare is a long-time unilateral nuclear disarmer and pacifist.
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Hare is a long-time unilateral nuclear disarmer and pacifist.
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