bullet

Example Sentences

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However, she warned the guidance was not "a silver bullet" and that if someone made a claim of discrimination against an organisation it was not a defence to say "we're waiting for the guidance".

From BBC • May 21, 2026

The bullet points highlight Steyer’s hedge fund’s investments in fossil fuel, tobacco, private prisons and casinos.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Imagine it like this: It is late in the evening of April 15, 1865, and Abraham Lincoln has survived an assassination attempt, the bullet aimed by John Wilkes Booth having merely nicked his now-bandaged scalp.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

But reducing extreme ideas to their brutal implementation ignores all the events that precede the bullet.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

It slams into the dirt on my right with the force of a slimy bullet.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone