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bullet

[bool-it] / ˈbʊl ɪt /


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"AI will never be a silver bullet," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

An RMP investigator confirmed to the BBC that they had seen photographs from the scene and that the bullet mark patterns had raised alarm among the Operation Northmoor team.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The bullet points included starting with strong, committed ownership; delivering a good product; establishing credibility and trust with fans and media; and hiring good people and letting them do their jobs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Third, and perhaps most importantly: there is no silvicultural silver bullet for managing forests.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Basing his hypothesis on newspaper reports of Garfield's symptoms, Dr. Frank Baker drew a diagram two days after the shooting to show where he thought the bullet penetrated.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

He was disturbed by images of fans being hit with rubber bullets and equipment being stolen, but also realized the band’s trajectory had suddenly changed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Known as magnetofossils, the microscopic structures come in shapes resembling spearheads, spindles, bullets, and needles.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

According to GlobalSecurity, a private nonpartisan research organization on defense issues, it’s unlikely Meink was talking about any sorts of “kinetic” weapons—i.e., weapons that unleash bullets or bombs—since the resulting debris could also be self-destructive.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

On Wednesday, government minister Jitendra Singh said in parliament that no "bullets" were fired, external and only tear gas was used.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

No matter what it was, whether it was the obstacle course or crawling under barbed wire while real bullets were fired over us, we Navajos were just about the best.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

“Some demand aggressive, highly detailed redlines, while others require concise, high-level markups accompanied by bulleted executive summaries,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Less than two minutes later, Mendoza hit a leaping Charlie Becker on a perfectly bulleted pass to the end zone for a 21-yard touchdown and an eventual 10-0 lead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026

He noticed that he had most of the symptoms on the bulleted list.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023

Next quarter Gannett will roll out a live pilot program using AI to identify the most important points of an article and create bulleted summaries at the top of it.

From Reuters ● Jun. 16, 2023

Screamer bulleted down and picked it out of the air.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Wright — out of necessity, or sanity-preservation — moves chronologically, bulleting each of their 25 albums and chasing Sparks' hope for fortune and adoration across their many troughs and peaks.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2021

With one snap of her head, she redirects all the momentum from the cross, bulleting the ball into the near corner.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2019

“Society to working moms:” she wrote in the April 18 post before bulleting a list of the unreasonable expectations the modern mother faces.

From Fox News ● Apr. 27, 2019

In the distance, a monstrous wheel of metal with a thousand sharp, jagged teeth spun wildly, tearing at the coal, sending shards of black rock bulleting through the air.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2015

It crashes down on the ball, bulleting it over the net.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson


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