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dynamite

[dahy-nuh-mahyt] / ˈdaɪ nəˌmaɪt /
NOUN
explosive
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According to US media, 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. 2, 2026

He suggested that perhaps dynamite might be the culprit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Chair of the judges Mary Beard described the 13 novels as "dynamite", adding: "We are confident that our longlist of books has something for everyone."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

In less than four seconds—according to butterflies let loose in my stomach—the Bentley swept past 60 mph, casually acquiring a kinetic energy of nearly one megajoule, roughly equivalent to a stick of dynamite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

A moment later, Noah blasts into the studio like a lit stick of dynamite, then freezes as he scans the room.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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

Hartmann explains it this way: "The seizure just kind of dynamites the depression out of my brain somehow."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Kieselguhr dynamites are being largely given up in favour of gelatine explosives.

From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford

Many dynamites contain other substances than the above, such as paraffin, resin, sulphur, wood, coal-dust, charcoal, also mineral salts, such as carbonate of magnesia, chlorate of potash, &c.

From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford

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

But on Jan. 8, 1931, the inflammable pile was dynamited, making room for King County Hospital, now Harborview Medical Center.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2023

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

He cut more hay, dug more ditches, dynamited more stumps, and spread more hot, black asphalt on Highway 101.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

In his summation to jurors, prosecutor Joseph Ford essentially blamed Darrow for the dynamiting of The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2024

After delivering consistency and displaying mental strength under their new manager, Clement’s team suddenly went rogue on him and those results might be the ones that end up dynamiting their league season.

From BBC ● May 10, 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

They achieved this by dynamiting a 28-mile-long canal connecting the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River, which flows toward the Mississippi.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2021

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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