bullet
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Third, and perhaps most importantly: there is no silvicultural silver bullet for managing forests.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
At what point should I bite the bullet and just accept less than what I shelled out?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
A Venezuelan man shot by an immigration agent in Texas underwent surgery Thursday to remove a bullet that had been lodged near his spine since September 20, his lawyers said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
"This type of work isn't some silver bullet," says Sharp.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
They could use X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs to locate the bullet, reveal the damage to his ribs and vertebrae, and show that his organs and spinal cord were uninjured.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
Known as magnetofossils, the microscopic structures come in shapes resembling spearheads, spindles, bullets, and needles.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
The case against the woman who authorities allege fired multiple bullets at pop singer Rihanna’s Beverly Hills mansion can move forward, a judge ruled Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
According to GlobalSecurity, a private nonpartisan research organization on defense issues, it’s unlikely Meink was talking about any sorts of “kinetic” weapons—i.e., weapons that unleash bullets or bombs—since the resulting debris could also be self-destructive.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
He even devises a way to keep the goats corralled so that he doesn’t have to chase them down or use up his precious bullets and gunpowder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Without a word, he began cleaning his gun, opening it up and removing the bullets, checking the cylinder.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
For a follow-up about “top family-friendly hikes,” Siri delivered a clean, bulleted list, citing several web sources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
He has used his office window, which overlooks the 101 Freeway, as a whiteboard of sorts, with a list of five bulleted words written in black marker on the glass: Empower.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
He noticed that he had most of the symptoms on the bulleted list.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023
Next quarter Gannett will roll out a live pilot program using AI to identify the most important points of an article and create bulleted summaries at the top of it.
From Reuters ● Jun. 16, 2023
He hurtled himself into the air, bulleted down the river valley, made a two-circle loop, climbed, and sped back to the bridge.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Wright — out of necessity, or sanity-preservation — moves chronologically, bulleting each of their 25 albums and chasing Sparks' hope for fortune and adoration across their many troughs and peaks.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2021
With one snap of her head, she redirects all the momentum from the cross, bulleting the ball into the near corner.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2019
“Society to working moms:” she wrote in the April 18 post before bulleting a list of the unreasonable expectations the modern mother faces.
From Fox News ● Apr. 27, 2019
In the distance, a monstrous wheel of metal with a thousand sharp, jagged teeth spun wildly, tearing at the coal, sending shards of black rock bulleting through the air.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2015
It crashes down on the ball, bulleting it over the net.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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