ram
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"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
So family members can ram a deal through, and force the bill for a misguided move onto outside investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
On June 11, he wrote: “Every time I read about the battering ram incident I’m just floored at how wild that is.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
The ram suddenly got that crazed look in his eyes again, and the robot prepared to jump.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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Officers used battering rams to force entry to several properties as parents walked past with their children on the school run.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
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
The most aggressive rams, those that showed the greatest resistance to human control, were slaughtered first.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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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
A car was rammed into the bay window, exposing the room inside.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
In Knueppel’s first season in the league, Brust rammed him with a shoulder, to see how he’d react.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 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 grabbed the gear lever and rammed it into low.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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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
Without referring to Beijing by name, the nations' foreign ministers criticised "dangerous manoeuvres by military aircraft" and "ramming and blocking actions in the South China Sea".
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
Initially the ramming was reported as an "active shooter incident".
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
I grab the gold notebook and read her the story of Isaiah Dunn having to stop a train from ramming into a building.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
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