dynamite
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On Wednesday, Sullivan issued the jurors a last-resort, so-called "dynamite charge" that encourages them to keep discussing in a bid to break the impasse and avoid a mistrial.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
"It's a dynamite show and a dynamite piece of writing," says Wybrow, whose mother also lived with memory problems at the end of her life.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Among their backers was a third Nobel brother, Alfred, already well on his way to immense wealth after patenting dynamite in 1867.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
He suggested that perhaps dynamite might be the culprit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Peace Prize, had predicted that his powerful explosives might very well put an end to all war.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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Corinne Bailey Rae dynamites her own musical past and embraces a larger historical one on her new album, “Black Rainbows.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
The girl in the case is also a bandit—except that she wrecks trains of thought and dynamites dams along the canons of true love instead of bothering with the Union Pacific and the Shoshone.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Hartmann explains it this way: "The seizure just kind of dynamites the depression out of my brain somehow."
From Time Magazine Archive
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With gelatine dynamites a firm tamping may be used, but with ordinary dynamite loose sand is better.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford
Though the dynamites are not exploded by sparks, they should nevertheless always be handled carefully.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
For about a year, towering remnants of the St. Francis Dam stood eerily in the empty canyon, a reminder of the disaster, before the city had them dynamited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Locadio dynamited his team's chances and prepared the ground for Scotland's comeback.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
The French Revolution then dynamited Europe’s old order and dynamized society as a collective organism, evolving in a “quasi-biological and determinate way.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
That’s what journalists do: listen through silence, awaiting a clue, the revealing epiphany, the face that crumples like a dynamited building.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2022
On May 11, 1906, the wrecking company dynamited the wheel, for scrap.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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In his summation to jurors, prosecutor Joseph Ford essentially blamed Darrow for the dynamiting of The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2024
However, Macron’s 2017 dynamiting of a post-war political landscape dominated by the two mainstream parties on the centre-right and centre-left created a void for populists to fill, analysts say.
From Reuters ● Apr. 6, 2022
Celtic have struggled against teams who sit in and hoover up space while dynamiting those who try to play more freely.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2022
A piece by Sun cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher, which showed a caricature of Schmoke dynamiting the Block only for little Blocks to spring up all over the city, made a big impression.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2022
In the mid-1990s, he points out, the city of Baltimore embarked on a highly publicized policy of dynamiting the old i96os-style public housing high-rises in East and West Baltimore.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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