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hammer

[ham-er] / ˈhæm ər /


VERB
create
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Also going under the hammer at the auction are memorabilia from rugby matches dating back to 1905.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Leaders at the two-day Montreal meeting will try to hammer out specifics for closer ties in areas including defense, artificial intelligence and critical minerals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Surging Treasury yields have begun to hammer parts of the stock market that might easily be overlooked, especially with the spotlight once again shining brightly on a small group of glamorous tech companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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

He grabbed a couple of tarps, a hammer, and a handful of metal stakes.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

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

“You think you’re going to go there and the hammers and the screwdrivers will still be hanging on the wall?” he asked her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

"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

The other reason was we were hammers and so we saw everything as a nail.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 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

Stocks of companies whose fortunes are tightly coupled with the AI boom have been hammered over the past month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

The details would be hammered out back in Washington, the people said.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Chwalinska, 25, felt a few nerves as she closed in on her first WTA 1,000 title, but took her third championship point when Kartal hammered a forehand long.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

India's men hammered Sri Lanka by 124 runs after Pakistan beat Bangladesh by six wickets in the semi-finals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

It floated serenely at treetop height and was tethered with ropes to a circle of stakes that had been hammered firmly into the earth.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Still, he maintained, echoing a similar statement after polls closed Tuesday, that he'd "do it again" despite the election hammering.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Data-center provider CoreWeave’s share and bond selloff brought credit risks into focus, hammering stocks across the AI supply chain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

One example of how midrange strikes helped there: Some of Russia’s electronic warfare systems run on generators, so hammering fuel logistics helped degrade this enemy capability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

In the following days, she was mostly silent, withdrawn, as they sat outside and watched the carpenter cutting, hammering, smoothing.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


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