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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 other details that will need to be hammered out.
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Josh Feldman,
NBC news,
19 June 2026
The agreement is light on details related to Iran’s nuclear program, which will be hammered out in technical negotiations over a 60-day period.
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Mabinty Quarshie,
The Washington Examiner,
17 June 2026
So once a new CBA is hammered out, expansion talk should get moved to the forefront.
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Chris Biderman,
Sacbee.com,
29 May 2026
Arsenal completed a deal for Martin Zubimendi, the broad terms of which had been hammered out almost a full year prior.
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James McNicholas,
New York Times,
19 May 2026
The final spending plan will be hammered out between the mayor and the Council before the July 1 start of the 2027 fiscal year.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
13 May 2026
The final compensation for top WBD executives when the merger deal closes has yet to be hammered out, but Zaslav and others are in line to get nine-figure payouts.
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Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Apr. 2026
For such stories to work, each contradiction has to be hammered out, variables accounted for, and plot holes filled and covered with grass.
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Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
24 Mar. 2026
However, a binding agreement hammered out with residents more than 20 years ago limits building heights, which would prevent them from adding two stories at Anderson Parking without eliminating the building’s rooftop observatory.
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Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
22 Mar. 2026
Josh Feldman,
NBC news,
19 June 2026
The agreement is light on details related to Iran’s nuclear program, which will be hammered out in technical negotiations over a 60-day period.
—
Mabinty Quarshie,
The Washington Examiner,
17 June 2026
So once a new CBA is hammered out, expansion talk should get moved to the forefront.
—
Chris Biderman,
Sacbee.com,
29 May 2026
Arsenal completed a deal for Martin Zubimendi, the broad terms of which had been hammered out almost a full year prior.
—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
19 May 2026
The final spending plan will be hammered out between the mayor and the Council before the July 1 start of the 2027 fiscal year.
—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
13 May 2026
The final compensation for top WBD executives when the merger deal closes has yet to be hammered out, but Zaslav and others are in line to get nine-figure payouts.
—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Apr. 2026
For such stories to work, each contradiction has to be hammered out, variables accounted for, and plot holes filled and covered with grass.
—
Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
24 Mar. 2026
However, a binding agreement hammered out with residents more than 20 years ago limits building heights, which would prevent them from adding two stories at Anderson Parking without eliminating the building’s rooftop observatory.
—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
22 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hammered out
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Sandler and Kelce developed a friendship after the Chiefs tight end appeared in Happy Gilmore 2.
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The tool, developed by independent AI engineer Luke Geel, analyzes past results and players’ activity—from posture to blink rate—spotting connections that might be imperceptible to the average viewer but visible to top pros.
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The two previously forged a bond while spending time together in London during the pandemic in 2020.
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So Continental Army leadership forged ahead on the last, short, dark day of 1775.
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Colombia was lively from the off, but Portugal eventually settled into the game and created its own chances.
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
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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.
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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.
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End at perhaps the quirkiest attraction on this list, Carhenge, a replica of England's Stonehenge crafted with old cars.
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The animatrons, crafted from fiberglass, iron and rubber, are intended to take the place of live elephants in Hindu temples.
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