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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
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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
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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
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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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