cannonball
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It’s not a trust fall so much as a trust cannonball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
“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
The British wanted to seize the ship and its treasure, but fired a cannonball into the San José’s powder magazines by mistake.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
We’d cannonball into his pool, and he’d drown me in silly jokes, or we’d argue over Star Wars versus Star Trek and end up watching Doctor Who instead.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Human cannonballs are said to be a small and select group.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025
Nearby buildings and a shopping center were evacuated as a precaution, Waltham fire officials said in a post on X, and the unearthed cannonballs were disposed of safely by the bomb squad.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
For years, it was unclear why, but a new study suggests jet expulsions of hot matter burped out like cosmic cannonballs are behind it.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 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
In fact,it is not really consistent to treat light like cannonballs in Newton’s theory of gravity because the speed of light is fixed.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
