Arms and Gunpowder

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Arms noun - Weapons considered collectively.

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Gunpowder and arms are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Gunpowder" instead a noun "Arms".

Gunpowder noun - A mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks.

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Arms and gunpowder are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Arms" instead a noun "Gunpowder".

Do you have gunpowder, ammunition, small arms, artillery, and the panoply of modern war churning out of your Arsenal of Whatever-ocracy?

Source: Video Game / Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun
It becomes an arms race, though, after the bad guys figure out a way to create a magical equivalent to gunpowder.

Source: Literature / Guardians of the Flame
Yuri himself comes close after Andre Baptiste strong-arms him into murdering Simeon - immediately going to a bar, snorting a mix of gunpowder and cocaine and aimlessly wandering a war-torn African village.

Source: Film / Lord of War

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