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Once you give a firm that power, you are disarming everyone else and giving them this pluripotent doomsday device that they can use to take away value and shift things around and screw you over.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2025

The intimacy of the film’s images and the surprising candor of its participants are disarming: Whatever your initial response, be prepared to re-evaluate.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2017

Two recent works are disarming because of their off-kilter resemblance to functional objects.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2017

I find that in this business, oftentimes in meetings, the executives or people I'm meeting with seem very compelled by the Midwesterner for some reason because we are disarming.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2015

They are disarming executive patronage and preponderance, by putting down one half the offices of the United States, which are no longer necessary.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson