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  • adjective Made into, or to serve as, a weapon.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of weaponize.

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Examples

  • The latter, especially, can scarcely be expected to to surrender to the the view that its obstructionism, however maddening, around a program that nowhere close to weaponized, is an exponentially -- not to mention "existentially" -- greater threat than a state that has had nukes for years and refuses to admit as much.

    Russ Wellen: How Does Staying Mum on Israel's Nukes Help the Peace Process? Russ Wellen 2010

  • The latter, especially, can scarcely be expected to to surrender to the the view that its obstructionism, however maddening, around a program that nowhere close to weaponized, is an exponentially -- not to mention "existentially" -- greater threat than a state that has had nukes for years and refuses to admit as much.

    Russ Wellen: How Does Staying Mum on Israel's Nukes Help the Peace Process? Russ Wellen 2010

  • The latter, especially, can scarcely be expected to to surrender to the the view that its obstructionism, however maddening, around a program that nowhere close to weaponized, is an exponentially -- not to mention "existentially" -- greater threat than a state that has had nukes for years and refuses to admit as much.

    Russ Wellen: How Does Staying Mum on Israel's Nukes Help the Peace Process? Russ Wellen 2010

  • The latter, especially, can scarcely be expected to to surrender to the the view that its obstructionism, however maddening, around a program that nowhere close to weaponized, is an exponentially -- not to mention "existentially" -- greater threat than a state that has had nukes for years and refuses to admit as much.

    Russ Wellen: How Does Staying Mum on Israel's Nukes Help the Peace Process? Russ Wellen 2010

  • Purchasers must undergo background checks, as Baskerville is classified as a weaponized organism throughout all 50 states and NATO signatories.

    Ned Goldreyer: Super Pets Last All Winter Long 2009

  • Anthrax produced in this way is referred to as weaponized anthrax.

    anthrax 2002

  • We are hearing a lot of terms thrown around, and yet to hear somebody say conclusively that this was absolutely 100 percent weaponized, which is really a term of art more than it is a term of absolute definition, but I guess we are waiting on that as well.

    CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2001 2001

  • It would then be weaponized, that is, dried or ground into particles small enough to float on air.

    CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2001 2001

  • We have a very odd economic philosophy in Washington: It's called weaponized Keynesianism.

    The Money Times 2010

  • That appeared to rule out the possibility that the spores were "weaponized" or manipulated to make them more deadly.

    Anthrax report casts doubt on scientific evidence in FBI case against Bruce Ivins Jerry Markon 2011

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