hammer
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The facade of the building betrays no affiliation—neither hammer nor sickle.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
The property is due to go under the hammer on 28 September.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Still, it’s a little stunning how hard the NBA has swung the hammer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Pacific forum culminates with a leaders' retreat on Thursday, during which officials are expecting to hammer out wording for a joint communique.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
“A hammer pounding between the eyes, it feels like my head is going to explode headache. We could have avoided this if you weren’t such a jerk.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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Recovery is well underway, with the sounds of hammers, saws and nail guns ringing through the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
But at the end of the day, "if you build a hammer... you can hurt yourself. So should we not build hammers any more"?
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 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
They saw the huge drums that were used for making thunder, and the Cloud-Men beating them furiously with long hammers.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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Highflying chip and memory stocks are getting hammered, while software developers rally as AI disruption fears ease.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Saudi gross domestic product contracted 4.7% from a year earlier in the second quarter, as the disruption to oil exports hammered activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
England sealed a comfortable series win as they hammered Ireland by six wickets in a one-sided encounter in the second one-day international at Derby.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Markey, though, hammered the issues where they did diverge—including the debate over transgender rights.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
Park carpenters hammered it up to connect us to our neighbors.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Hobson added that her focus has been on hammering home the museum’s populist themes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Major rivers including the Rhine, the Danube and the Loire have been reduced to fractions of their normal flows, leaving behind cracked earth and dead fish, while hammering economies.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
No one knows, but all the flailing, hammering, digging and burrowing are for naught.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
But Stevens more aptly fits the conventional understanding of electable, a point that her campaign is hammering home as its closing message.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Several fetterlings had managed to coil around Eddie’s page giant like a python, but huge paper fists were hammering them left and right.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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