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hammer

[ham-er] / ˈhæm ər /


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create
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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

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

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

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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