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hammer

[ham-er] / ˈhæm ər /


VERB
create
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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

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

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

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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