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bulldoze

[bool-dohz] / ˈbʊlˌdoʊz /




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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

"It limits our movement. They cut off roads, bulldoze lands and cut down trees."

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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

The city made good on its promise to bulldoze blighted areas, demolishing thousands of derelict houses and hundreds of crumbling businesses in Hayti.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

I have tried talking to Jon about it, but Sarah just bulldozes him.

From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2020

“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

Shortly after, the developer bulldozed the entire place, ripped out trees and erected a 4,700-square-foot box house complete with an eight-foot-tall tiger painted by the front door.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Now, many local leaders want to see them bulldozed to make way for new, denser housing—igniting an outcry on the edge of unbroken wilderness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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

Some islanders warn that the isolated Indigenous populations' millennia-old culture risks being bulldozed away.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

Other parts we have to crawl at an excruciatingly slow pace, because of rocks bulldozed into five-foot berms, intentionally formed into a maze designed to direct the flow of water.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

Mom gasps and runs over, almost bulldozing Bernadette, who’s balancing several baskets.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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