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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

People in Guam and the Northern Marianas moved to emergency evacuation centers and made last-minute preparations on Sunday, hours before a "super typhoon" was projected to bulldoze through the US Pacific territories.

From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026

He gets very enthusiastic about what if we look at that hypocrisy and just bulldoze over it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

My father was later ordered by the steel company to bulldoze them out, but he never did.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

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

With two magical allies — Faizah Malik, who is challenging Councilmember Traci Park, and Board of Education member Rocio Rivas — they saved homes from being bulldozed by corporate villains.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

Wales took advantage on 20 minutes, with a Gwen Crabb turnover gifting them a promising attacking platform, and while line-out ball was slightly overthrown, Tuipulotu took a clean catch and bulldozed her way through.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

The old public library, the one Mr. Lemoncello had loved when he was a boy growing up in the small Ohio town, had been bulldozed to make way for a multilevel concrete parking structure.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

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

But the Red Roses did not have things all their own way in the opening 40 minutes, with Wales hitting back through Keira Bevan and a bulldozing Kelsey Jones.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 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

Walking the outer perimeter of the fence, the patrolman clapped his hands and shouted, in case the animals were hiding under Curly’s trailer or snoozing in the shade of the bulldozing equipment.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen


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