hammer
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Europe will use the gathering to hammer home its pro-AI agenda.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
He was a hammer meeting a nail, traveling to the run down parts of towns all over America to shore things up — to entertain rather than win over audiences.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
The initial phase of contract talks still would have union and county representatives seeking to hammer out a mutually beneficial deal, with a presumption that both sides would negotiate in good faith.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“We’re trying to avoid a blunt hammer of a government policy, understanding the complexity of refining.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
But he drove the second nail, looped his hammer, and joined us.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Recovery is well underway, with the sounds of hammers, saws and nail guns ringing through the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
In the background, hammers and saws can be heard creating escape routes through the destruction.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
But at the end of the day, "if you build a hammer... you can hurt yourself. So should we not build hammers any more"?
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
The other reason was we were hammers and so we saw everything as a nail.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
Sparks fly from hammers as big as my head, forge fires glow a red deeper than blood, and cottony plumes of steam erupt every few feet from freshly quenched swords.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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“His anthem, his law, hammered, hammered, into me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Wall Street has hammered those stocks this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Even though “housing demand is being hammered, housing supply is also weak,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
At the meeting, Kao and Reed, the super PAC’s chair, hammered out a deal for a six-figure donation, Kao told the FBI.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Conner grasped both my wet hands, and my heart hammered.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
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Lobsterman Steve Train starts every workday before dawn about $1,000 in the hole, a hike in expenses driven by soaring fuel costs that are hammering Maine's flagship maritime industry ahead of US midterm elections.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
Tech firms took a hammering on Tuesday amid concerns about China's progress in developing AI chips and following comments by Broadcom's boss likening the AI buying frenzy to gambling.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
The two sides spent months hammering out the details.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Hobson added that her focus has been on hammering home the museum’s populist themes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Lupita stepped forward, her heart hammering in her chest.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
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