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
Scores of Flock cameras are still operating citywide, but police officials say they won’t have access to them unless the Los Angeles city attorney’s office can hammer out a new agreement with Flock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Europe will use the gathering to hammer home its pro-AI agenda.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 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
As we entered the building, Raizel retrieved a hammer from the scatter of tools lying in the corner.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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At The Yard, a junkyard playground on a former Coast Guard installation in New York City, children play with hammers, saws and knives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Recovery is well underway, with the sounds of hammers, saws and nail guns ringing through the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
More recently, the stock has been building a base near its rising 50-week SMA, with higher lows reinforced by bullish hammers and a harami between May and July 2024, followed by a doji in October.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
The other reason was we were hammers and so we saw everything as a nail.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
On still nights she could hear the hammers ringing through the warm, dry air.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
After Leeds hammered Newcastle 4-1 in September, Muharemovic shouted into the TV cameras "United are back, United are back".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
“His anthem, his law, hammered, hammered, into me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
I knew the number of his room, 148, and I hammered at the door, very flushed in the face and breathless.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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And after hammering No. 17 Florida on Saturday, the Bulldogs are the betting favorite to add another championship trophy in January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Tech firms took a hammering on Tuesday amid concerns about China's progress in developing AI chips and following comments by Broadcom's boss likening the AI buying frenzy to gambling.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
The two sides spent months hammering out the details.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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
It was hot and muggy, and Natalie was panting and sweating by the time they finished hammering.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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