hammer
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The costume, which was one of three originals made, went under the hammer at an online auction on Monday at Auctioneum Ltd in Bristol.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Lebanon and Israel were meeting in Washington on Tuesday to hammer out a path to ending the conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
And in second-half stoppage time, Messi added another by collecting a stray ball and working through a crowd of Austrian defenders to hammer it home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Still, the hammer didn’t drop until the court quietly released a follow-up in June that constitutionalized Callais and proclaimed, without equivocation, that the Constitution is “color-blind.”
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
Stubble Chin drew a hammer from his tool belt.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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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
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
Iron wheels revolved there endlessly, and hammers thudded.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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The sector has been hammered by concerns that valuations have gone too far and questions about when firms will see a return on the trillions of dollars pumped into AI.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Other semiconductor companies were also hammered, with Intel down more than 6% and Nvidia declining around 3% ahead of the opening bell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
As a downpour hammered the tarped field early Tuesday evening, it was unclear when exactly the Dodgers would be playing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
All of Stokes, McCullum and director of cricket Rob Key denied the captain and coach were at odds during the Ashes, when England were hammered 4-1.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
Questions hammered at me: Should I turn around and force him to admit it?
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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England needed 49 off the final four, when Bethell climbed into the leg-spin of Ravi Bishnoi, hammering three sixes for a total of 29 off the 17th over.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Thanks to the constant hammering of the helicopters, “it was like ‘Apocalypse Now,’ ” Andy Warhol wrote in his diary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 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
U.S. stocks took another hammering tied to renewed tensions in the Gulf region, questions over the fate of the artificial intelligence trade, and faster inflation metrics that could stoke Federal Reserve rate hikes.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
The men were hammering on the door of the house and pounding on the window.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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