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Canadian trade negotiators are in Washington this week trying to hammer out a deal that will include broad tariff relief in exchange for Ottawa dropping certain countermeasures.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Instead once a year he takes them to a livestock auction where buyers place bids and the hammer decides.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

As Renee DiResta, associate professor at Georgetown University, told me, generative AI is a tool: “You can take a hammer and build a house with it, or you can use it as a weapon, right?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

But it is also the quieter skill of noticing when the building is complete and putting down the hammer.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

“A hammer, some screws, some Scotch tape, and a box of matches.”

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

"This is a gift to the United States of America," Trump said last month as he took reporters on a tour of the building site, shouting over the noise of hammers and buzzsaws.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

Friday’s broadcast ended with a literal bang, with Colbert, Daniels and White taking hammers to the talk show set and setting it ablaze.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 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

The bells had been removed, but the hammers were still in place.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

Shares in the company, whose business has been hammered in recent years by competition from Asian steelmakers, were up around one percent in Frankfurt.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Set a modest 128 for victory, Super Giants romped to the total as Tim Seifert hammered an unbeaten 80 off 40 balls to secure victory with 33 balls to spare.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Airlines have been getting hammered this year by soaring jet fuel prices, which hit record highs of more than $4.80 a gallon in April, according to the Argus US Jet Fuel Index.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Rushing hammered the grooved fastball to left-center field, just shy of the Citizens Bank Park concourse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Not that she can move, for her legs seem suddenly to have been hammered into the ground beneath her.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

The thud of a hammering Hulksmash rattles our seats; later, a cocked rifle is so crisp we perk up like a dog hearing the mailman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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

Tuesday's hammering followed a bleak day on Wall Street, where the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index dropped 2.2 percent as Sandisk tanked 11 percent, while Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia gave up around five percent.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

With a towering performance, Norway’s star striker Erling Haaland sent Brazil packing in the round of 16, hammering home two goals in a 2-1 victory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

The men were hammering on the door of the house and pounding on the window.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler