cannonball
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“We need to have the basic things,” said Biniam Girmay, a high-speed cannonball from Eritrea who in 2024 won three sprint stages at the Tour de France.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Instead of casually wading into the shallow end, skimming the surface with tepid bits of history about Mansfield’s life and career, Hargitay opts for a cannonball.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025
Here they tautologically come, slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024
It’s also singular, daring and an uncompromisingly cannonball into the queer cinema pool.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
“I know, but I can do a cannonball, can’t I, Qareeb?”
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
The location where the cannonballs were found was formerly a Raytheon company location, according to The Boston Globe.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Eventually, jet propulsions and strong winds from within the pulsar eject the heated matter like cosmic cannonballs.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2023
“Sometimes, we’d wait until boats were coming into the harbor and do cannonballs, splashing them,” she recalled often.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
The images centered on the 1797 warship USS Constitution, better known as Old Ironsides because, while it sank a British vessel during the War of 1812, its thick, oak hull survived a barrage of cannonballs.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
He towered over us, at least seven feet tall with biceps the size of cannonballs.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
