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hammer

[ham-er] / ˈhæm ər /


VERB
create
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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

Europe will use the gathering to hammer home its pro-AI agenda.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 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

I could almost hear the beating of my own heart; and the blood surging through my temples sounded like blows from a hammer.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

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

We each pick up our rock hammers and a little pail.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

“His anthem, his law, hammered, hammered, into me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

It was on pace for its largest percent decrease since April 2025 when tariff chaos hammered banks, and it has now lost 20% since its high in August.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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

Across the semicircular door were signs hammered across the entire surface.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Traders punished the stock with a 13% decline Thursday that marked its worst day on record, hammering major Alphabet shareholders such as Berkshire Hathaway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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

Hobson added that her focus has been on hammering home the museum’s populist themes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Her words were hammering at my brain, the horrible syllables were beating the air around me, the whole place was full of their sound.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya


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