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  • adjective having exactly two arms

Etymologies

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two +‎ -armed

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Examples

  • The issue is discussed as a matter of deliberate choice in treatments of the so-called two-armed bandit problem and optimal research policy.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • The issue is discussed as a matter of deliberate choice in treatments of the so-called two-armed bandit problem and optimal research policy.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • The issue is discussed as a matter of deliberate choice in treatments of the so-called two-armed bandit problem and optimal research policy.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • Even a two-armed Economist would say "easy choice".

    Trade Deficit, Saving, and Tax Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • It was a cruel separation that each one-faced, two-armed person forever after sought to undo by finding his or her literal other half.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • That was the way Manny Ramirez was supposed to leave baseball: with a two-armed wave, an inexplicable smile and a slow walk up the ramp to return to his home planet, where every day was the last day of school, money was made out of ice cream and no one ever ran all the way to first base.

    This Time, Manny Is Fleeing Manny Jason Gay 2011

  • The shuttle also carried a humanoid, two-armed robot.

    Discovery's Last Mission Extended by Two Days 2011

  • It won't actually refuel or repair anything, but with the help of the station's two-armed, Canadian-built robot named Dextre, it could demonstrate such work is possible even on satellites never designed to be fueled or repaired in space.

    Shuttle experiment to test in-flight repair, refueling 2011

  • The shuttle also carried a humanoid, two-armed robot.

    Discovery's Last Mission Extended by Two Days 2011

  • It was a cruel separation that each one-faced, two-armed person forever after sought to undo by finding his or her literal other half.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

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