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This, after all, is a woman who dislocated her shoulder three years ago while forearming a raccoon off her deck to protect her Labrador retriever.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2011

One of the smug assumptions of the cold war era was that the U.S. was forearming itself with a stockpile of strategically scarce commodities to see it through a wartime siege.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Forewarning," she said gloomily, "is a torture when forearming avails naught."

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

He had a presentiment that in this way God was forearming him for some extraordinary trial; and the loss of his wife seemed to him most likely to be that trial.

From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by Prentiss, George L.