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jackhammer

[jak-ham-er] / ˈdʒækˌhæm ər /




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If you’re a fan of Croatia, I think you might want to stop reading here and go do something less stressful, like operating a jackhammer, or wrestling a sock drawer full of cobras.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

In the end, Guadagnino takes a jackhammer to everything he’s spent the last two-plus hours so meticulously building, but not quite in the way one might expect.

From Salon Sep. 25, 2025

Let’s say you’re out on some rugged outcropping and you need to jump on your jackhammer for a few minutes.

From Slate Jul. 18, 2024

And by taking a jackhammer to that foundation, Garber threatened the integrity of the entire structure.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 21, 2023

She scratched his neck, and Radar’s tail whacked away at the wall like a jackhammer, and that just made her laugh even harder, and then Alex knew everything was going to be all right.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers

The technician positioned me to slide through the metal arc of an MRI machine while the sound of jackhammers pounded.

From Salon Sep. 30, 2024

“Every morning you can feel the vibrations from the jackhammers and you see rocks tumbling down,” one woman told state broadcaster Rai.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2024

Unlike the nanoscale drills based on Nobel laureate Bernard Feringa's molecular motors, molecular jackhammers employ an entirely different - and unprecedented - mechanism of action.

From Science Daily Dec. 19, 2023

She’s also tethering the story and its people to a history, one that’s soon imperiled by new neighbors and jackhammers.

From New York Times Mar. 30, 2023

For the three hours that the jackhammers blasted, Frightful watched Sam.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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