dynamite

He suggested that perhaps dynamite might be the culprit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Soldiers cordoned off the area before using dynamite to blast the first ruined building apart -- a 12-story residential tower that had partially collapsed and was slanting toward the street.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 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

Cue the appalling thought of a Haiti equaliser that would dynamite Scotland's hopes of doing what they came here to do - making history by making it out of a group in a World Cup.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

“We’re standing next to a dynamite keg and the fuse is lit,” said Johnston.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

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

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

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

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 Benjamin Chim had his fields dynamited and turned into a quarry for materials for the railroad.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023

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

On May 11, 1906, the wrecking company dynamited the wheel, for scrap.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

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