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ram

[ram] / ræm /


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Lyndon Dykes is a battering ram, but Gabriel and Marquinhos have seen his sort before in their storied careers.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

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

From Salon May 30, 2026

The finding supports stories from 19th-century sailors who reported whales using their heads to ram and push objects, sometimes even sinking ships.

From Science Daily Mar. 23, 2026

After an ICE agent fatally shot Good on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, government officials alleged that Good, who is survived by a wife and three children, was trying to ram the agent with her SUV.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 8, 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

He bade each man choose out three thick-fleeced rams and bind them together with strong, pliant strips of bark; then to wait for day, when the flock would be sent out to pasture.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

“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

The only visible law enforcement presence is a police car rammed across the driveway, signaling the limits of encroachment, like an invisible wall in a video game.

From Slate Feb. 23, 2026

At the moment it's derelict, but Goldsworthy explained his plans to create a rammed earth wall with a deep cavity in the middle, the size of a grave.

From BBC Feb. 6, 2026

But getting rammed into a place will make you notice.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor

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

Researchers say ramming has not previously been documented as an orca predation strategy.

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

The vehicle ramming rattled local members of the community, Stern said.

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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