as in to forge
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 hammer out
Hopes that the two sides would be able to hammer out a deal had been high since early last year, when Starbucks — which had previously been accused by federal regulators of unlawfully firing workers — pledged publicly to work with the union.
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Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
The stateside pact was hammered out between Cineverse’s executive director of acquisitions Brandon Hill and Blue Finch’s Mike Chapman, who represented the filmmakers.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
That set off a roughly two-year struggle to hammer out the complex details of how that would work, even as legal challenges poured in.
—Lolita C. Baldor, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025
Today, standards bodies from ISO 20022 working groups to the BIS’s Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures are hammering out privacy, messaging, and liquidity templates for CBDCs.
—Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
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Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
The stateside pact was hammered out between Cineverse’s executive director of acquisitions Brandon Hill and Blue Finch’s Mike Chapman, who represented the filmmakers.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
That set off a roughly two-year struggle to hammer out the complex details of how that would work, even as legal challenges poured in.
—Lolita C. Baldor, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025
Today, standards bodies from ISO 20022 working groups to the BIS’s Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures are hammering out privacy, messaging, and liquidity templates for CBDCs.
—Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hammer out
Verb
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Trump could be the right leader to forge compromise.—
J. Tedford Tyler,
Time,
17 May 2025
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Work smarter not harder Many new CE leaders overestimate their internal ability and capacity to forge new partnerships to improve supply chains.—
London School of Economics,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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Something borrowed, something blue As Xu worked to develop a technology that could revolutionize surgical care for people with advanced-stage cancer, Elissa graduated from high school and went on to study journalism and electronic media at Eastern Michigan University.—
Kristen Jordan Shamus,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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Rare Breed agreed not to develop FRTs for pistols and to enforce its patents to block potentially unsafe imitations.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
19 May 2025
Verb
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Defense created easy offense and in the halfcourt, the ball skipped around.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
28 May 2025
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Ronaldo’s post on social media on Monday, when Al Nassr played the final match of their season, then created more conversation.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
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The difference is that Succession had three-and-a-half seasons before that episode to craft the detailed psychological portraits that rendered its characters’ world-altering actions comprehensible.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
23 May 2025
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If your goal is to invest in a pair of supportive yet stylish sandals or slides to complement every outfit in your suitcase, then Birkenstock has proven to craft the best shoes for the job.—
Merrell Readman,
Travel + Leisure,
23 May 2025
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“Hammer out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hammer%20out. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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