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dynamite

[dahy-nuh-mahyt] / ˈdaɪ nəˌmaɪt /
NOUN
explosive
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When his techno beats kick in during the most fraught sequences, however, the effect is dynamite.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 23, 2026

Denford’s steadily growing “nobody cares” audience regularly tosses sticks of dynamite into that vortex in the name of protecting our sanity.

From Salon Apr. 5, 2026

A man who left a fake stick of dynamite outside the headquarters of MI5 has been found guilty of carrying out a bomb hoax.

From BBC Feb. 28, 2026

To prepare the site, engineers have already blasted through more than 7 million pounds of dynamite.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 17, 2026

It was that Francis felt he could never get the message over to Maurice that you did not move cautiously when you were holding dynamite like DNA.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

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 Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)

With gelatine dynamites a firm tamping may be used, but with ordinary dynamite loose sand is better.

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

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

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

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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