slam
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I just want you to amplify how important it is when you slam the courthouse doors, whether it’s preemption or standing, in environment-land, that’s it.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
He topped it off with a grand slam in the seventh to seal the Dodgers’ season-high eighth straight win.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Nadal, a 22-time major winner, called time on his career aged 38 in 2024, two years after 20-time slam champion Roger Federer did so aged 41.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Oregon must open doors for struggling students, not slam them shut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
I slam my hand onto the dry, brittle ground and let my frustration weave into the earth.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Bow shocks are typically produced when material flowing away from a star slams into its surroundings.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
The Court’s decision slams the door to such judicial misadventures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Bogdan's coalition has gathered 4,000 signatures so far on a petition that slams the lack of public consultation about the Meridian Hill Park project and the possible cancellation of summer events due to construction.
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
This case, which was fast-tracked through the court system as an emergency, slams the door on one such expansive use of presidential authority.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
I watch as Ryan slams the car door and scampers into his elementary school.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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She slammed property prices across the country as "completely insane".
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
A beat later and the Ravens’ window would have slammed shut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Some researchers think Phobos is an asteroid that was captured by Mars, while others argue that it formed from debris thrown into orbit after a massive object slammed into the planet.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
“It felt like a movie” — that’s what we all said in the days and weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, when a Michael Bay action film slammed uncomfortably into real life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Bat didn’t know what to call the sound that she made just before she spun around, stomped back into her room, and slammed the door.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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The injury will have been caused by her chest slamming into the water.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Dalton Rushing was shown on the game broadcast breaking his bat in the dugout and slamming his leg guard on the back bench after striking out in the fourth inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
A 13-year-old boy riding an electric motorcycle in Garden Grove died after veering into the center median, flying into the air and then slamming onto the roadway, authorities said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2026
China Eastern flight MU5375 was travelling from Kunming to Guangzhou on March 21, 2022, when the jet inexplicably fell from an altitude of 29,000 feet, slamming into a mountain.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
I get up and stop myself from slamming it, and just shut it quietly.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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