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The Year of the Sheep — or, alternatively, of the goat, or ram — begins on Feb. 6.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2026

Officers pour out and stand ready with a battering ram, but the front door is already open.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

Astronomers have already found evidence that ram pressure stripping is affecting M88 today.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026

He and Chris ram their shoulders against it, but it’s bulletproof, shoulder-proof, everything-proof.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

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

Firemen could be seen smashing in a window with battering rams and helping people climb out from inside in videos shared on social media.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 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

Jimmy Papanikolas holds his egg out, passive, as Chapter Eleven rams his egg against it.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

"We're taking the Bastille," one demonstrator shouted in Marseille as masked protesters rammed the door of the mayor's offices with security barriers, in reference to the 1789 storming of a fortress during the French Revolution.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

“They said I, quote unquote, rammed federal agents,” she said at a congressional hearing in February.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

Just after her car had been repaired, it was rammed again in the middle of the night, and had to be written off.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 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

Harry stuffed his rucksack and broomstick down by his feet and rammed Hedwig’s cage between his knees.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

A muscular coast guard presses China’s claims, at times by blasting rival vessels with water cannons or ramming them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

On the morning of the crash, Cleveland Police said it received several reports of two vehicles being driven dangerously around the town and a Volvo XC60 had been seen ramming properties.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

She really did her part authentically, never by ramming it down anyone’s throat, but just by simply just being herself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

“I slammed on my brakes and just barely missed ramming him.”

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel