dynamite

I’m reluctant to fault Ackie, who was dynamite earlier this summer in Boots Riley’s “I Love Boosters.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Even though the public is starting to pay attention, Caulkins says that the issue has not yet become political dynamite, which means political rhetoric comes with little risk.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

How many other sculptors have made regular use of dynamite?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

The dynamite, which, unpainted, looked like yellow Play-Doh, could be dropped, cut, smashed, and even burned without exploding.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

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

The late Colonel Cundill, in his "Dictionary of Explosives," gives a list of about 125 kinds of dynamites.

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

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

A place where dead sailors had been buried, the island was dynamited and removed in the early 20th century to widen the harbor and make it more usable for shipping traffic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

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