hammer
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The facade of the building betrays no affiliation—neither hammer nor sickle.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Marr will donate the full hammer price from 31 lots to The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and The National Autistic Society.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Still, it’s a little stunning how hard the NBA has swung the hammer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Pacific forum culminates with a leaders' retreat on Thursday, during which officials are expecting to hammer out wording for a joint communique.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
When he came back, he had a hammer, a jar of nails, a bag of cotton balls, a bottle of iodine, and some Band-Aids.
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
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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
Some years later a cat keyboard emerged, featuring keys that activated hammers to which pins were attached.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
More recently, the stock has been building a base near its rising 50-week SMA, with higher lows reinforced by bullish hammers and a harami between May and July 2024, followed by a doji in October.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
The other reason was we were hammers and so we saw everything as a nail.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
Then we run up the steps, Char’s high heels sounding like hammers banging nails whenever she takes a step.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
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Saudi gross domestic product contracted 4.7% from a year earlier in the second quarter, as the disruption to oil exports hammered activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Markey, though, hammered the issues where they did diverge—including the debate over transgender rights.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
The instability that hammered the South Korean equity market in July was unlike anything investors in that market had ever seen before.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
Shares in the company, whose business has been hammered in recent years by competition from Asian steelmakers, were up around one percent in Frankfurt.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
I looked around and found a nail—you can always find a nail in an old basement—and hammered it in behind one of the stairs.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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Hobson added that her focus has been on hammering home the museum’s populist themes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Rather than hammering home his advantage, defending champion Romero went back into his shell and Lopez kept him well at bay with his jab to take the 23rd victory of his career.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
No one knows, but all the flailing, hammering, digging and burrowing are for naught.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
But Stevens more aptly fits the conventional understanding of electable, a point that her campaign is hammering home as its closing message.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
He’s careful, doing as little hammering as possible, and when he’s done, I can’t tell that his wall is not the wall of our attic.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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