hammer out
Example Sentences
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Lebanon and Israel were meeting in Washington on Tuesday to hammer out a path to ending the conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Bonn is where government negotiators meet every June to hammer out technical details and narrow differences over global climate action before leaders tackle the bigger decisions at COP31.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
But first, he needs to hammer out a common stance between the parliament's different factions, which looked set to keep haggling until the last moment.
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
Usually, the National Security Council holds interagency meetings—first among midlevel experts, then with Cabinet secretaries and the president himself—to hammer out positions on various major issues.
From Slate ● May 16, 2026
Axel races across the room, flings open the basement door, all the while his stomach fills with woodpeckers all trying to hammer out of him.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
