hammer

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Lebanon and Israel were meeting in Washington on Tuesday to hammer out a path to ending the conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026

Still, the hammer didn’t drop until the court quietly released a follow-up in June that constitutionalized Callais and proclaimed, without equivocation, that the Constitution is “color-blind.”

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2026

Marr will donate the hammer price of 10 lots to benefit The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and The National Autistic Society.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

Sotheby's estimates it will sell for between £3m and £4m when it goes under the hammer in July.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026

She might have slept longer, after the exhausting hike of the previous day, but that plunk—plunk—plunking sound was as insistent as a blacksmith’s hammer.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood