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[ram] / ræm /


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Beginning with tobacco, they refitted the dusty doctrine as a battering ram and swung it at guns, lead paint, opioids and oil companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

"We are F1 drivers. We should not look like kids and clowns trying to ram into each other. That's not what F1 needs."

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Internet access took a battering ram to information’s door, sending dizzying amounts of data our way overnight.

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

He and other members of the group have been arrested and detained, including one incident in which federal agents were recorded on video appearing to ram his truck.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

This house, a large, ram bling gray stucco with a picket fence surrounding the weedy grounds, stood away from the street, perched on a ledge that dropped fifty feet down into the river below.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

That also explains why, and how, his devoted rams, lambs and ewes are able to dedicate themselves to solving his murder.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

"We don't have the means to pay for her studies," she explained from their home's back courtyard, where young children capered about and two rams watched from an enclosure.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

At the opposite extreme is Scotland's Soay sheep, with just 0.6% full siblings because each ewe mates with multiple rams.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2026

Few artists can draw from both worlds, but they collided in her debut, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?—pillow-soft vocals and blown-out drums, singer-songwriter lullabies and sonic battering rams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

Suddenly, the car ahead of us brakes, and as we brake, too, the car behind rams into us, and the trunk flies open.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

Instead of being at the site where Al-Qaeda hijackers rammed planes into the World Trade Center towers, Trump will pay his respects on Friday at the Pentagon in Washington.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

On one occasion last week, he says he was twice rammed by someone with their trolley in Tesco.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

“There are serious fair trial and due process violations in these cases, and they are being rammed through the revolutionary courts and fast-tracked.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Murillo claimed he was rammed; prosecutors said the collision happened at less than 10 miles per hour and was “more of a jolt.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026

He’s talking too fast, as if he’s the one who rammed into a car, his hand trying desperately to push down the trunk that has flown open.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

The home belongs to Cole Worthy's father, Gye Worthy, and the ramming happened on the same night Cole died.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Mat Swanigan, 37, designed a custom lock for a set of french doors his dog kept ramming into.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

It followed the same sequence of holding, releasing, ramming, and feeding.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

"They're a heavy, bony fish, so it must be some severe ramming," Wellard said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

On the advice of the whalers, Shackleton had the decks of Endurance loaded with extra coal for ramming through the ice.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong


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