cannonball
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It’s not a trust fall so much as a trust cannonball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
“We need to have the basic things,” said Biniam Girmay, a high-speed cannonball from Eritrea who in 2024 won three sprint stages at the Tour de France.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Of all the dirty, rotten, down-low things Netflix has done, providing a gaping pit of gold coins for Adam Sandler to cannonball into like Scrooge McDuck might be the worst so far.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2025
Here they tautologically come, slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024
Giving it a little extra, Palmer fired a final cannonball.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
Over the last week, both artists’ camps launched new items like cannonballs.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2024
The location where the cannonballs were found was formerly a Raytheon company location, according to The Boston Globe.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Eventually, jet propulsions and strong winds from within the pulsar eject the heated matter like cosmic cannonballs.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2023
“Sometimes, we’d wait until boats were coming into the harbor and do cannonballs, splashing them,” she recalled often.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
The ships were too far away to be hit, and the cannonballs fell into the river.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
