jackhammer
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jackhammers
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If you’re a fan of Croatia, I think you might want to stop reading here and go do something less stressful, like operating a jackhammer, or wrestling a sock drawer full of cobras.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Carolyn Hove, raising her voice to be heard over the crew operating a jackhammer in front of her home, asked: “How much more are we supposed to go through?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
In the end, Guadagnino takes a jackhammer to everything he’s spent the last two-plus hours so meticulously building, but not quite in the way one might expect.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2025
Crucially, the song avoids the Eurovision cliches of jackhammer dance anthems and windswept balladry – something Remember Monday have in common with this year's favourites.
From BBC ● May 9, 2025
Its call less like the trumpet Frank wished for and more like a jackhammer.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
Trump, who built a career as a real estate developer, has frequently touted the project, gushing over the sounds of jackhammers and excavation trucks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
The technician positioned me to slide through the metal arc of an MRI machine while the sound of jackhammers pounded.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024
“Every morning you can feel the vibrations from the jackhammers and you see rocks tumbling down,” one woman told state broadcaster Rai.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024
Unlike the nanoscale drills based on Nobel laureate Bernard Feringa's molecular motors, molecular jackhammers employ an entirely different - and unprecedented - mechanism of action.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2023
The constant vibrations from two jackhammers trembled the huge horizontal web, but Frightful stayed with her eggs.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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