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
He suggested that perhaps dynamite might be the culprit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
He grew up in the neighborhood, which was named for a dynamite manufacturer that once had a factory there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
George Ferris fought the cold with dynamite, the only efficient way to penetrate the three-foot crust of frozen earth that now covered Jackson Park.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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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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They are mostly distinguished by special trade names, and are mainly of two classes—those containing ammonium nitrate and nitrobenzene or nitronaphthalene, and those containing nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose, which are essentially weak dynamites.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
Kieselguhr dynamites are being largely given up in favour of gelatine explosives.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford
As a young man, by his account, he smuggled diamonds, oversaw coconut plantations, dynamited fish, captained schooners and hunted killer cannibals in the New Guinea jungle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 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
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
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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
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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