hammer

He was a hammer meeting a nail, traveling to the run down parts of towns all over America to shore things up — to entertain rather than win over audiences.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

The initial phase of contract talks still would have union and county representatives seeking to hammer out a mutually beneficial deal, with a presumption that both sides would negotiate in good faith.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

When it brings down the hammer, the league has historically favored fines and points deductions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The instruments, which were used during his time with The Smiths and on his forthcoming solo album, went under the hammer as part of Christie's Marr's Guitars: The Johnny Marr Collection sale.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

A ball-peen hammer hung on one of his loops.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

In the background, hammers and saws can be heard creating escape routes through the destruction.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Some years later a cat keyboard emerged, featuring keys that activated hammers to which pins were attached.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Friday’s broadcast ended with a literal bang, with Colbert, Daniels and White taking hammers to the talk show set and setting it ablaze.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

In late 2022-early 2023, it recorded a couple of bullish hammers and did the same last April.

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026

Yet there were many like us without hammers and using only stones, who were making very good progress.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Even though “housing demand is being hammered, housing supply is also weak,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

That message was hammered home Saturday for dozens of voting rights groups, community organizations and unions attending a rally to recruit and train poll watchers for the November election.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

At the meeting, Kao and Reed, the super PAC’s chair, hammered out a deal for a six-figure donation, Kao told the FBI.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

While BBC Sport understands final details are still being hammered out between Netflix, Saudi Arabian organisers Sela and both fighters' camps, Cardiff has firmly emerged as the frontrunner, with an official announcement expected this week.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

I thought back on the part I played in the fortune-teller case, as the book peddler in the Maroney adventure, and as the haunting, hammered bank teller in the Drysdale affair.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

One example of how midrange strikes helped there: Some of Russia’s electronic warfare systems run on generators, so hammering fuel logistics helped degrade this enemy capability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

England won only two of McCullum's final 10 Tests in charge, including the hammering in Australia.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

The thud of a hammering Hulksmash rattles our seats; later, a cocked rifle is so crisp we perk up like a dog hearing the mailman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

But Stevens more aptly fits the conventional understanding of electable, a point that her campaign is hammering home as its closing message.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

I cupped my hands around my eyes and felt the glass hum with hammering as if it were alive.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez