hammer
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That’s a smile piece, too, although Ono looks all business holding a crystalline hammer on the catalog cover photo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Pele’s 1958 World Cup jersey goes under the hammer.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Gignac, who sells other city trash on his website, said he tied some of the items into knots to "hammer home the wedding theme."
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
The concrete sculptures are just one part of more than 400 items going under the hammer, including paintings, furniture and textiles.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
I see a golden pharaoh’s head, the horn of what I can only imagine is a giant bull, and the head of a huge, slate-gray hammer.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
At the lows during April and May 2024, the stock displayed consecutive bullish hammers along with clusters of dojis and spinning tops, in March-April 2025.
From Barron's ● May 20, 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
He plays an urgent rendition of Tony Joe White’s “Polk Salad Annie,” where the bass hammers with punk-like aggression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
“Hey, Dad? I’m off to get the toolbox. You recall the toolbox? Man needs tools to work. Screwdrivers and hammers and stuff. Plenty of tools there, you want to help,” and so on.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
Hefty selling on Wall Street bled through to Asia, where Seoul dived more than three percent as chipmakers were hammered.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Last year, for example, at his Miami waterfront estate, Witkoff hammered out a plan with Russia’s Dmitriev for $300 billion in joint Russia–U.S. investment projects—which would come to fruition after some possible future peace.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Echoing that signature yellow hue: a walnut island, a hammered barrel-vaulted copper hood, a copper farmhouse sink and replicated 1920s cabinetry painted “Matchstick” by Farrow & Ball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Soaring energy costs have also hammered the industry, while business rates and other pressures have seen some pubs struggle to afford to pay staff.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
When he looked back at her, the pain was tamped down into something hammered and hard, locked behind his eyes.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
Walking back to the car, weeping behind my sunglasses, I was shaky and hot and breathless, my heart hammering in my chest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
From Germany's 7-1 rout of debutants Curacao in Houston on 14 June to Canada's 6-0 hammering of Qatar in Vancouver four days later, there has been an avalanche of goals.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
But he said he recalled players from visiting teams hammering a long ball and passing him at first base, thinking “they had a home run, and then making a right turn back to the dugout.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Researchers are still hammering out the kinks with error correction, though recent milestones show clear progress.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
They went back and forth all day, Kennedy on the defensive, Khrushchev hammering away.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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