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The phrase "a convenient weapon for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a tool or method that is easily accessible and effective for a particular purpose, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "In the debate over climate change, misinformation has become a convenient weapon for those who wish to undermine scientific consensus."
Alternatives: "an effective tool for" or "a useful means for".
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Nonetheless, she's a convenient weapon for Trump because of her ties to the alt-right.
After the attacks of September 11 , 2001 Attorney General John Ashcroft identified the material-witness statute as a convenient weapon for the war on terror.
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HYPOCRISY does not make you wrong, but it hands your critics a convenient weapon.
In power struggles at the top of the Chinese leadership, charges of corruption are often a convenient weapon.
There is the house at 51st and Throop where, at 11, he huddled near some steps to avoid a rival gang member's gunfire; the sidewalk where he carved his gang nickname into the newly laid cement; the lot at 51st and Ada where Sam's store once stood, its back yard a convenient hideaway for weapons.
For China, it provides a convenient rationale for buying or building new weapons systems to deny the United States complete control over air and sea.
Their critics call them naïve, claiming that non-nuclear weapon states use the lack of progress on disarmament as a convenient excuse for not enacting non-proliferation measures that they dislike for other reasons.
Since the use of chemical weapons constitutes a solid breach of international law, their use is also a convenient excuse for the West to get the jets out and send them east once again.
As the White House's prewar claims about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs became increasingly discredited, the investigation by Charles A. Duelfer and his Iraq Survey Group provided a convenient out for President Bush and his aides.
A convenient excuse for philandering?
Massachusetts provided a convenient shield for a while.
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