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jackhammer

[jak-ham-er] / ˈdʒækˌhæm ər /




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They hired a crew to jackhammer away much of the concrete and replace it with crushed black lava rock from C&M Topsoil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

If you’re a fan of Croatia, I think you might want to stop reading here and go do something less stressful, like operating a jackhammer, or wrestling a sock drawer full of cobras.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

In the end, Guadagnino takes a jackhammer to everything he’s spent the last two-plus hours so meticulously building, but not quite in the way one might expect.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2025

Crucially, the song avoids the Eurovision cliches of jackhammer dance anthems and windswept balladry – something Remember Monday have in common with this year's favourites.

From BBC ● May 9, 2025

Even a jackhammer trilled like a distant woodpecker.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

The roar of bulldozers and jackhammers drilling into piles of debris is almost constant.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025

“There will be a moment in time in 2028 when there will be no construction at LAX. There will be no jackhammers in the central terminal, there will be no orange cones,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025

The technician positioned me to slide through the metal arc of an MRI machine while the sound of jackhammers pounded.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024

Unlike the nanoscale drills based on Nobel laureate Bernard Feringa's molecular motors, molecular jackhammers employ an entirely different - and unprecedented - mechanism of action.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2023

For the three hours that the jackhammers blasted, Frightful watched Sam.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George


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