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Hammerheads stand out from other shark species by the distinctive shape of their heads, which stick out perpendicular to their bodies in the shape of, well, a hammer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

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

In today’s feed, it pays to watch where the hammer is swinging.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

The hammer felt like a feather as I finished the next section of fence.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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

In late 2022-early 2023, it recorded a couple of bullish hammers and did the same last April.

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 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

With wrenches, hammers, washers, and black goop, they did this, getting soaked in the process.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

In 2011, former Time Warner Cable executives hammered out the 20-year agreement with the Lakers, then owned by the late Jerry Buss.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

They hammered Inter Milan 5-0 in Munich in 2025 and then beat Arsenal on penalties in Budapest this year.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

At the Glenn-Mills trial in Los Angeles, Meta attorneys repeatedly hammered witnesses about the lack of a listing — at times appearing to annoy jurors and test the patience of the court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

She judged the space on either side of Sigurd, ready to time a run at escape, when a column of water blasted sideways from the wall and hammered Sigurd in the face.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

Inside, I do a double-take: the men working inside are hammering together wooden coffins.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Oil prices had plunged earlier in the week due to reports that Iran and Oman were hammering out an agreement to swiftly reopen the key energy transit channel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

I pasted on a smile and hoped she couldn’t hear my pulse hammering.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry