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n. (arms race English)
Usage examples of "arms races".
Almost all animals are either in danger of being eaten by other animals or in danger of failing to eat other animals, and an enormous number of detailed facts about animals makes sense only when we remember that they are the end-products of long and bitter arms races.
Meanwhile, can't you see the dying down of war, arms races, terrorism, despotism, given such a prospect before everyone?
Such extravagance and gratuitous display is the most urgent tendency of late capitalist culture, even as it is of arms races and sexual selection in biological evolution.
Coevolving Predator and Prey Robots: Do Arms Races Arise in Artificial Evolution?
The blaster had its own built-in baffle silencer, developed during the arms races of the late nineties.