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

How many other sculptors have made regular use of dynamite?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

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

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

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

Though the dynamites are not exploded by sparks, they should nevertheless always be handled carefully.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" 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

The Germans also dynamited the dam years later as they retreated after repairing the Soviet damage.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

“Sometimes a levee would go in the night, somewhere upriver. In the morning, the rumor would spread that the Army Engineers had dynamited it to relieve the pressure on the city.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2021

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

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