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hammer

[ham-er] / ˈhæm ər /


VERB
create
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Ukrainian soldiers had used a hammer and chisel to break through the concrete in the middle and dug out a small shelter just big enough for two people in the earth beneath.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The Late Cretaceous carnivore is expected to fetch up to $9m when it goes under the hammer on Tuesday.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Europe will use the gathering to hammer home its pro-AI agenda.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

He was a hammer meeting a nail, traveling to the run down parts of towns all over America to shore things up — to entertain rather than win over audiences.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

On the stage, in front of a velvet curtain, were two flags: the Stars and Stripes and the unmistakable and portentous crimson Soviet banner with its hammer and sickle.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The rhythmic clanging of hammers on bronze echoes through the Istanbul workshop where three craftsmen are landing blows with astonishing precision to transform featureless metal discs into highly prized handcrafted cymbals.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

But now we’ve had three visits in five years, and in my head, this hammers home the point that baseball players have nothing to gain from a visit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

The other reason was we were hammers and so we saw everything as a nail.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026

Among the works is a giant dinosaur fossil made from hammers, knives and spanners, a snake made from an old bicycle chain and a bull's nostrils formed from a vintage gas mask.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

We carried our hammers and nails and boards up to Auntie Braxton’s and started on her windows.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

OpenCode’s customers had been hammered by a similar LLM jacking attack, which started two days before Railway’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Chip firms were hammered in Asia, with South Korea's SK hynix off more than seven percent and Samsung 5.5 percent down.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Many of the top technology stocks, which seemed almost unstoppable for months, got hammered this week as fears grew that massive spending on artificial intelligence won’t pay off anytime soon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The details would be hammered out back in Washington, the people said.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

As Mara held the main post with both hands, I positioned the pikes and Smithy hammered them into the ground.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

The Monarchs were clinging to a 21-20 lead in the second set when Matavao took control, hammering spikes for her team’s last four points.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

Global healthcare stocks fell Friday, hit by a rout that reached Europe and Asia and spread across sectors after hammering AI trades and U.S. markets earlier in the week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Still, he maintained, echoing a similar statement after polls closed Tuesday, that he'd "do it again" despite the election hammering.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

After a tough start, last week's win over the Buffalo Bills was a huge confidence boost for the New England Patriots, as they showed with a 45-17 hammering of the Las Vegas Raiders.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

I started hammering before he’d even stepped into the stirrup.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson


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