hammer
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The guitar now going under the hammer was "a gift" to his sister because the singer "thought so much of her", he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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
The initial phase of contract talks still would have union and county representatives seeking to hammer out a mutually beneficial deal, with a presumption that both sides would negotiate in good faith.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Michael celebrated the ruling on X, writing: "The hammer of justice has smashed Anthropic arguments."
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
It’s a small rectangle of metal, and I have to hit it over and over again with a riveting hammer until it is completely covered with little round divots.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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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
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
Iron wheels revolved there endlessly, and hammers thudded.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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The coast could be particularly hammered if the exceptionally high king tides coincide with strong winter storms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Wall Street has hammered those stocks this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Even though “housing demand is being hammered, housing supply is also weak,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
At the meeting, Kao and Reed, the super PAC’s chair, hammered out a deal for a six-figure donation, Kao told the FBI.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
They were working that night in his study when someone hammered on the front door.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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This means that, as with its social media ban, the government is looking to bring in legislation before fully hammering out the specifics of how it would work.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Pietersen spoke about his coaching ambitions earlier in 2026,, external after England's 4-1 Ashes hammering in Australia.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
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
With my heart hammering wildly in my chest, I scoop up the other Edith’s box and scrabble down the ladder.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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