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bullet

[bool-it] / ˈbʊl ɪt /


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It’s not a silver bullet that cures polarization, settles complicated policy debates or ensures that everyone gets along.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

Mason, who found a bullet casing from the incident in her front yard, called it a consequence of letting the property sit empty for so long.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

"It's like a war happened and we were a bullet factory," the 49-year-old said, adding that five months of inventory had been "wiped out" within weeks of the conflict's outbreak in late February.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

"CBT is not a silver bullet," he told the BBC.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

What no British bullet could do in the revolutionary war, the opposition press had managed to do in the political battles during his second term.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

By arming her mammies with revolvers, rifles and bullets, Saar turned a symbol of servility into one of militancy and power.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

He even devises a way to keep the goats corralled so that he doesn’t have to chase them down or use up his precious bullets and gunpowder.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The drones do not shoot bullets or any other kind of projectile.

From Barron's May 15, 2026

Instead, the Housatonic’s crew fired their rifles and shotguns, only to see their bullets bounce harmlessly off the Hunley’s iron sides.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

But if AI can turn a 16,000-email disaster area into simple bulleted lists, I might finally make peace with my thousands of unreads.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 18, 2026

He has used his office window, which overlooks the 101 Freeway, as a whiteboard of sorts, with a list of five bulleted words written in black marker on the glass: Empower.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2023

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

He hurtled himself into the air, bulleted down the river valley, made a two-circle loop, climbed, and sped back to the bridge.

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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