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hammer

[ham-er] / ˈhæm ər /


VERB
create
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That’s a smile piece, too, although Ono looks all business holding a crystalline hammer on the catalog cover photo.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Baxter described the announcement on Thursday as "barmy" and "the biggest hammer blow to local democracy that's happened in 50 years".

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Pele’s 1958 World Cup jersey goes under the hammer.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

Gignac, who sells other city trash on his website, said he tied some of the items into knots to "hammer home the wedding theme."

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

He dropped the hammer and tongs from his hands and snatched a pitchfork from the wall.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

More recently, the stock has been building a base near its rising 50-week SMA, with higher lows reinforced by bullish hammers and a harami between May and July 2024, followed by a doji in October.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

The other reason was we were hammers and so we saw everything as a nail.

From Slate Mar. 30, 2026

Among the works is a giant dinosaur fossil made from hammers, knives and spanners, a snake made from an old bicycle chain and a bull's nostrils formed from a vintage gas mask.

From BBC Mar. 12, 2026

“Deliberation tempers impulse, and compromise hammers disagreements into workable solutions,” he writes.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 22, 2026

No less miraculous was that a girl typing away in Cleveland made the hammers of Francie’s machine pound out the words.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Airlines have been getting hammered this year by soaring jet fuel prices, which hit record highs of more than $4.80 a gallon in April, according to the Argus US Jet Fuel Index.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Last year, for example, at his Miami waterfront estate, Witkoff hammered out a plan with Russia’s Dmitriev for $300 billion in joint Russia–U.S. investment projects—which would come to fruition after some possible future peace.

From Slate Jul. 22, 2026

Echoing that signature yellow hue: a walnut island, a hammered barrel-vaulted copper hood, a copper farmhouse sink and replicated 1920s cabinetry painted “Matchstick” by Farrow & Ball.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

The sector has been hammered by concerns that valuations have gone too far and questions about when firms will see a return on the trillions of dollars pumped into AI.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

According to some tales, he hammered steel drilling spikes into granite for a railroad company.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

Stokes, McCullum and director of cricket Rob Key were all backed following the hammering in Australia.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

Workers are now patching up the roof to protect the building from rain, the sound of their hammering mixing with that of ringing bells from a tower nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

But he said he recalled players from visiting teams hammering a long ball and passing him at first base, thinking “they had a home run, and then making a right turn back to the dugout.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

U.S. stocks took another hammering tied to renewed tensions in the Gulf region, questions over the fate of the artificial intelligence trade, and faster inflation metrics that could stoke Federal Reserve rate hikes.

From Barron's Jun. 11, 2026

Then one night he appeared, kissed us hello, put on his work clothes, and began hammering on the walls.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago




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