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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

"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

"They said you need to pack it up or they are going to bulldoze it. They didn't come for talking, it was go, go, go," Mr Theodie said.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025

“Had to bulldoze her all out, like I say.”

From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit

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

He bulldozes past me and covers the rest of the hood with suds.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na

It has bulldozed its way through tariffs, war, higher oil prices and disappointing GDP to rise 13% so far this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

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

The great slack dump we called Cape Coalwood has been bulldozed, overgrown, browsed now by deer, silent to boyhood voices.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

From the outset, Ms. Hazoutte and Ms. Siman Tov have been opposed to bulldozing houses in Nir Oz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

But he criticised Hegseth's "brashness, the bravado, the bulldozing of questions" in briefings.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 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

With much “Hurr-ing” and “Arr-ing,” they waded busily in, bulldozing the enormous heap of rock and rubble off the top of the ramparts.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques


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