bulldoze
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To access a legitimate road, she’d have to bulldoze a driveway across two other parcels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The town’s slow work was getting the legal right to bulldoze capital that ownership had abandoned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
"If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty... nothing can be done?" the judge asked.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
When federal agents moved in to remove the last occupiers in 1971, officials had plans to bulldoze the entire thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025
My father was later ordered by the steel company to bulldoze them out, but he never did.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
One reviewer called the film "a feature-length ad for Kerala tourism" that "gleefully bulldozes over all possibilities of any cultural nuance".
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
She seems to never lose as she hilariously bulldozes her way through conflict.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2024
Antetokounmpo now bulldozes opponents and his strength is a core feature of his game.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
He bulldozes over the facts of this case and blows past photographic evidence.
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2022
“So long as nobody bulldozes it down!” cried Mrs. Gause, whose flickering image was still being projected behind the circulation desk.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
That part of the city has since been bulldozed and replaced by the offices of Central Square, but some older residents will remember the newspaper kiosk and the man who ran it.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Often these projects are approved with little to no input from community members, either because they flew under the radar or because companies bulldozed their way into building them anyway.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
With two magical allies — Faizah Malik, who is challenging Councilmember Traci Park, and Board of Education member Rocio Rivas — they saved homes from being bulldozed by corporate villains.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
The next generation isn’t being bulldozed by AI; they’re partnering with it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
He’d been trying not to look beyond the ragged edge of the backyard to the bulldozed mess of branches, trunks, leaves, and mud that had once been his beloved woods.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
While a ceasefire began on April 17, the destruction, demolitions and bulldozing in southern areas have only intensified, affecting homes, infrastructure, schools, places of worship and farmland.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
He made good on these promises, with what the Times called “bureaucratic bulldozing, rather than legislative transparency” characterizing his two terms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Fall River is one of those northern post-industrial cities that’s been futilely trying to reverse decline for decades, first by bulldozing historic neighborhoods to build highways, and now by constructing breweries and farmer’s markets.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
Rybakina might be seeded ninth in New York this year, but the recent bulldozing of Sabalenka in Cincinnati - winning 6-1 6-4 - was a reminder of her threat.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
With much “Hurr-ing” and “Arr-ing,” they waded busily in, bulldozing the enormous heap of rock and rubble off the top of the ramparts.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
