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hammer

[ham-er] / ˈhæm ər /


VERB
create
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The Late Cretaceous carnivore is expected to fetch up to $9m when it goes under the hammer on Tuesday.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 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

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

He glanced up and almost smashed his thumb with his hammer.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Recovery is well underway, with the sounds of hammers, saws and nail guns ringing through the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

In the background, hammers and saws can be heard creating escape routes through the destruction.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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

The tools looked clean and well-oiled, saws, hammers, pliers, axes, mallets, planes, drills, screwdrivers, a level.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

The coast could be particularly hammered if the exceptionally high king tides coincide with strong winter storms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 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

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

Her heart hammered as the doors parted like the opening of a book.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

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

The guy looks over, pauses in his hammering.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz


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