Small arms
Weapons and small arms are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Weapons" instead a noun phrase "Small arms".
Weapons
Both terms in one sentence
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Even in The Race's headquarters city in Egypt, they're routinely harassed and shot at with small arms and weapons larger than small arms.
Source: Vichy Earth -
The army fields locally-produced small arms, though the Special Forces use a lot of German-made weapons such as the MP5 submachine gun and MSG-90 sniper rifles.
Source: Good Guns, Bad Guns -
Every army on the planet uses them; arguably, there are more small arms and small-arms-ammunition deployed by the world's militaries than all other types of weapons combined.
Source: Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
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Weapons and Small arms. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/small_arms/weapons
Small arms & Weapons. N.p., 2016. Web. 28 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/small_arms/weapons>.
Weapons or Small arms. 2016. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/small_arms/weapons.
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