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hammered out

verb

past tense of hammer out

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to produce or bring about especially by long or repeated effort the city council hammered out new commercial development regulations with input from residents, business owners, and environmental activists

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Recent Examples of hammered out The details would be hammered out back in Washington, the people said. — Cate Brown, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026 Home Depot has hammered out a deal to partner with one of its hometown sports franchises. — Amy Wenk, AJC.com, 19 Oct. 2026 If the parties can’t agree on terms, a valuation is usually hammered out via binding arbitration, and the existing distribution agreement remains in place until the payout is received. — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2026 While the exact vision is yet to be hammered out, the core concept is to ensure the entire food story at the stadium is steeped in the Sacramento region’s farms, produce and makers. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026 In 2011, former Time Warner Cable executives hammered out the 20-year agreement with the Lakers, then owned by the late Jerry Buss. — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026 In April, Williams hammered out a two-year extension that pushed off retirement talk and let the 49ers focus elsewhere in the draft instead of splurging on a replacement. — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026 In the meantime, Silver anticipates that a flurry of one-and-done provisional arrangements will be hammered out before the new campaign tips off in October. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 15 July 2026 If implemented, the framework agreement hammered out between Lebanon and Israel in June 2026 could serve as the most consequential agreement between the two countries in nearly 80 years. — Anthony Wanis-St John, The Conversation, 10 July 2026

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Next, the researchers developed a simplified model that reproduced the observed rotation and current increase.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
How Richard Branson inspired Tan-Gillespie’s career ethos As Tan-Gillespie’s career developed, so did her aspirations.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026

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Billions of years ago, this little corner of the universe contained only a dozen or so primary minerals—raw building blocks forged in the hearts of ancient stars and cast into the cosmos by supernovae.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Sguros paid taxes and utilities at the home in West’s name, and forged his signature to get permits for work at the home, the sheriff's office said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026

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In November 2021, crew members took shelter inside their spacecraft after a Russian anti-satellite weapons test created a dangerous cloud of debris.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
The series, created by Marc Crehuet with Alejandra Guimerà, was co-penned by Crehuet with Carmen Marfá, Natalia Boadas and Serielizados co-founder Víctor Sala.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026

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He feels emotionally ambushed, and what plays out is as if Marriage Story were an absolute chucklefest, as Lestat gets increasingly worked up and jealous over Louis’s relationships with other men.

— Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 15 June 2026
Church’s numinous-sun-over-still-water routine had begun to look a bit like a shtick, equally applicable to scenes of the Hudson or those worked up from 20-year-old sketches of South America.

— Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026

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