hammer
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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
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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
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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
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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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