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For much of his second term, Trump has seemed to bestride the globe, lavishing his attention on a wide range of international issues.

From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026

‘Spartacus’ Kirk Douglas doth bestride the screen like Colossus as the titular gladiator turned rebel leader in Stanley Kubrick’s epic 1960 historical drama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2022

It is a rare feat for a civil-rights luminary, even on the local level, to bestride generations, as the dearly missed U.S.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2020

Solar panels are being nailed to rooftops, colossal wind turbines bestride the plains and oceans, and a million electric vehicles are on U.S. roads — and it isn’t enough.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2018

He seemed to bestride Washington like a Colossus.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)

He bestrides a real estate empire worth $25 billion, according to Forbes, a portfolio that includes 56 cottages, 12 homes and seven palaces.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2023

Amazon is a behemoth that bestrides several economic sectors.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

The U.S. remains immensely powerful, but it no longer bestrides the world like a colossus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2015

As a politician Hillary Clinton bestrides the landscape like a colossus.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2015

Wearing embroidered palikari vest, puffy-sleeved poukamiso, and pleated foustanella skirt, my grandfather bestrides the gangway- He pauses a moment to look out at the audience, but the bright lights blind him.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm crested the world; his voice was propertied ... as all the tuned spheres.

From Time Magazine Archive

That horse that thou so often hast bestrid; That horse that I so carefully have dressed!

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Hermes the winged Horse bestrid, 70And thorow thick and thin he rid, And floundred throw the Fountaine.

From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Brett, Cyril

These Warriours on a sort of Coursers rid, Ne’r log’d in Stables, or by Man bestrid.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore

That horse, that thou so often hast bestrid; That horse, that I so carefully have dress'd!

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The U.S. bestrode the world like a colossus, and manufacturing was central to our dominance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

Casemiro, a sad and fading shadow of the great player who bestrode Real Madrid's midfield through their Champions League glories, simply strolled out.

From BBC ● May 12, 2024

He bestrode the tabloid newspapers and craved headlines and front pages.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

He was sentenced to three years in prison, two of them suspended, in what was a stunning fall from grace for a former president who once bestrode the world.

From Reuters ● May 17, 2023

Napoleon, however, got hoisted on to a gun, and bestrode it: the marshals and generals did the same, and in this grotesque order they reached, after four hours' toil, the convent at the summit.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe

James Ramsay MacDonald, onetime British Prime Minister, said last week: "I have never bestridden a bicycle because I have no balance of that sort."

From Time Magazine Archive

In this race three horses outdistanced all the others; the great bay ridden by Colonel Washington, a snappy little gray bestridden by the colonel's boy bugler, and my own mount.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

Compare your description with this from Stevenson: "The town came down the hill in a cascade of brown gables, bestridden by smooth white roofs, and spangled here and there with lighted windows."

From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)

"The colossal figure which for fourteen centuries had bestridden the Indian continent vanished suddenly, like a rainbow at sunset."

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Here she gave an exclamation of wonder, real or ritual, and looking up at the high garden wall above her, beheld it fantastically bestridden by a somewhat fantastic figure.

From The Innocence of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Byrne, who last visited Broadway in 2016 with “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” appears at ease on the stage, bestriding it as easily as another man might stroll his own patio.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

Indeed, many historians and political experts say that as the 106th mayor of New York, from 1990-93, Dinkins suffered by comparison with the Gullivers bestriding him.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2020

When he was bestriding the nation, Gershwin was the most modern guy around; 82 years later — guess what? — he still is.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2019

Barely two feet tall, it is the humble ancestor to every monstrous welded metal assemblage bestriding today’s urban landscapes.

From Economist ● Sep. 24, 2015

Unlike the suffering, earthbound Christs depicted at eye level on the church walls, our Christ Pantocrator was clearly transcendent, all-powerful, heaven- bestriding.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides