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Rather than serving as a heavy hammer, it functioned as a softer striking tool used to repair and sharpen stone handaxes and other cutting implements after their edges became worn.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

That’s a smile piece, too, although Ono looks all business holding a crystalline hammer on the catalog cover photo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Arrabaca had two axes, a hammer, a machete, six fireworks and three fixed-blade knives, Barnacle said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

A series of watercolours by a Welsh ceramicist are to go under the hammer at auction.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

For several seconds, Papa just stood there, with the tongs in one hand and a hammer in the other, watching Daisy and Rowdy make their way up the trail.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

But now we’ve had three visits in five years, and in my head, this hammers home the point that baseball players have nothing to gain from a visit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

At the lows during April and May 2024, the stock displayed consecutive bullish hammers along with clusters of dojis and spinning tops, in March-April 2025.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

The other reason was we were hammers and so we saw everything as a nail.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026

Among the works is a giant dinosaur fossil made from hammers, knives and spanners, a snake made from an old bicycle chain and a bull's nostrils formed from a vintage gas mask.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

No less miraculous was that a girl typing away in Cleveland made the hammers of Francie’s machine pound out the words.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

That has hammered a number of previously high-flying companies that have hit multiple records this year, particularly those in South Korea and Japan.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Last year, for example, at his Miami waterfront estate, Witkoff hammered out a plan with Russia’s Dmitriev for $300 billion in joint Russia–U.S. investment projects—which would come to fruition after some possible future peace.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

Echoing that signature yellow hue: a walnut island, a hammered barrel-vaulted copper hood, a copper farmhouse sink and replicated 1920s cabinetry painted “Matchstick” by Farrow & Ball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Bitcoin’s retreat has hammered the company’s stock price, leaving Strategy with a dwindling number of options to raise more cash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Pear trees with fruit that looked like hammered gold.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

Walking back to the car, weeping behind my sunglasses, I was shaky and hot and breathless, my heart hammering in my chest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Back in 1974, when known as Zaire, their three group defeats included a 9-0 hammering by Yugoslavia.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Wales encouraged AI companies to "pay their fair share", because "hammering us with millions of requests costs real money," in the cost of running servers.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

But he said he recalled players from visiting teams hammering a long ball and passing him at first base, thinking “they had a home run, and then making a right turn back to the dugout.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

He raced down the stairs, but not before more hammering fairly shook the house.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham