jackhammer
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But he turns up the volume on his rich voice so high, and so consistently, that Shakespeare’s verse comes across like the sound of a jackhammer without an off switch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
In the end, Guadagnino takes a jackhammer to everything he’s spent the last two-plus hours so meticulously building, but not quite in the way one might expect.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2025
Let’s say you’re out on some rugged outcropping and you need to jump on your jackhammer for a few minutes.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2024
And by taking a jackhammer to that foundation, Garber threatened the integrity of the entire structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
Viruses may seem alive when they multiply, but in another sense they are obviously dead, are only machines, subtle ones to be sure, but strictly mechanical, no more alive than a jackhammer.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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The technician positioned me to slide through the metal arc of an MRI machine while the sound of jackhammers pounded.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024
“Every morning you can feel the vibrations from the jackhammers and you see rocks tumbling down,” one woman told state broadcaster Rai.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024
The jackhammers are aminocyanine molecules, a class of fluorescent synthetic dyes used for medical imaging.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2023
She’s also tethering the story and its people to a history, one that’s soon imperiled by new neighbors and jackhammers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
Men with ear protectors picked up their jackhammers and tested them.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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