dynamite
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How many other sculptors have made regular use of dynamite?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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
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
We’ve all marveled at Shohei Ohtani’s Superman quick change, how he’ll go from dynamite pitcher to fearsome hitter in a few bats of an eye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026
Even a dynamite blast on day twenty-two did not frighten her.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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
Hartmann explains it this way: "The seizure just kind of dynamites the depression out of my brain somehow."
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 Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)
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
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
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
The work was backbreaking: digging out boulders, chopping down trees, dynamiting tunnels, and hammering in railroad ties.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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