hammer out
verb
hammered out; hammering out; hammers out
: to produce or bring about as if by repeated blows
hammered out an agreement
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Examples of hammer out in a Sentence
the city council hammered out new commercial development regulations with input from residents, business owners, and environmental activists
Recent Examples on the Web
The findings of groups like Million Marker and Minderoo are especially relevant this month, as the United Nations International Negotiating Committee meets in Ottawa, Canada from April 23 to April 29 to hammer out provisions for an international agreement that would limit global plastic pollution.
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 25 Apr. 2024
Around the same time, a video appeared on the Spotify page for Tortured Poets showing Swift herself sitting at a typewriter, hammering out the same phrase.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 16 Apr. 2024
The Biden administration has given the space agency until the end of 2026 to hammer out the new system.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
Issues pertaining to fast-food workers should be hammered out in Sacramento by representatives of workers and employers with consideration for the worker protections and employer mandates already required under state law.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
Canada is trying to hammer out a plan that could eliminate plastic packaging of produce by 95 percent by 2028.
—Kim Severson, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Bob Dylan’s manager Albert Grossman spent a lot of his career hammering out deals for artists who claimed to hate materialism.
—Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
The official said Israel and the U.S. are waiting for Hamas to respond to a proposal hammered out in Qatar in recent days.
—NBC News, 25 Mar. 2024
Blinken has been trying to hammer out a plan to present to Israeli leaders that would trade the lure of normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia with Israel’s consent to a Palestinian state.
—Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 25 Apr. 2024
Around the same time, a video appeared on the Spotify page for Tortured Poets showing Swift herself sitting at a typewriter, hammering out the same phrase.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 16 Apr. 2024
The Biden administration has given the space agency until the end of 2026 to hammer out the new system.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
Issues pertaining to fast-food workers should be hammered out in Sacramento by representatives of workers and employers with consideration for the worker protections and employer mandates already required under state law.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
Canada is trying to hammer out a plan that could eliminate plastic packaging of produce by 95 percent by 2028.
—Kim Severson, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Bob Dylan’s manager Albert Grossman spent a lot of his career hammering out deals for artists who claimed to hate materialism.
—Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
The official said Israel and the U.S. are waiting for Hamas to respond to a proposal hammered out in Qatar in recent days.
—NBC News, 25 Mar. 2024
Blinken has been trying to hammer out a plan to present to Israeli leaders that would trade the lure of normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia with Israel’s consent to a Palestinian state.
—Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
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“Hammer out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hammer%20out. Accessed 2 May. 2024.
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