smash
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Only instead of just peacefully apprehending opponents, Doncic’s super-competitive alter ego wants to smash them all under an array of increasingly rude step-back jumpers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
“It’s a difficult setup because you’ve got to smash it out the park to get your stock to work.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The 23-year-old McRae, on the other hand, will have her past decisions dug up by what remains of the music press after each new chart smash.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
The agreement aimed to smash the business model of smugglers who charge migrants huge amounts to make the perilous and sometimes deadly journey.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Back through the vegetable garden he went, and he paused for a moment to smash a green muskmelon with his heel, but he was not happy about it.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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Sakurai further gooses the nostalgia factor by laying in time-capsule radio smashes, with 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up?” proving particularly important to the plot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Take Anne Hathaway, fresh off a string of box-office smashes in “The Odyssey,” “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” “The End of Oak Street” and “Mother Mary.”
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
The sale smashes the record previously set for a residential real estate deal in the Hualālai, which previously stood at $30.2 million, according to Kildow.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Former managing director Sean Coughlan had said increases in employers' national insurance contributions and high business rates "absolutely smashes local business".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
He didn’t know what, but as surely as one feels the sting of shards when an hourglass tips off a shelf and smashes, he knew that something was happening.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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Then it smashed price records in 2017, fetching $450 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
It was first spotted earlier this month after high tides and waves smashed into the slope.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
At a smashed out tram stop, 79-year-old grandmother Chantal Bellanger said she had been "worried - but then, I've been worried for a long time".
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Speaking to Italian news agency Ansa, he said he witnessed "smashed shop windows, looted stores, and frightened citizens", adding that "what happened here is what we are seeing in many cities around the world".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
In Hamburg, Karl Schnibbe saw the broken glass from smashed windows.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Courtney Iseman breaks down why gimmicky cocktails go wrong—and gives some recipe ideas for making your spooky spirits a smashing success.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
It was a smashing evening, and I fell asleep that night deeply grateful for my 55 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
She alleged there were provocateurs among the protesters, smashing up stores and banks, to discredit the demonstrations.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Local media in the southern city of Korce accused students of smashing windows at a high school.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Some days it’s angry, smashing itself against the cliffside below the fence so much that it rises high, drenching the path with water.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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