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[bool-ee] / ˈbʊl i /




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His father, less a bully but now a user, had wheedled his way onto the set of “Rocky” and embarrassed him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Alison Thornton, who plays chief bully Chris Hargensen, says social media "is kind of a villain in the show".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“You can’t love God and abuse the immigrant. You can’t love God and bully the outcast. You can’t love God and oppress the poor.”

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

“My dad always told me to listen to myself. Don’t let other people bully you. Don’t let them affect you. Ignore all the noise,” Wallace said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

He kept glancing in the direction of the hospital, then out across Buzzards Bay as if Mr. Sloan’s stolen skiff might appear at any moment, that bully man in the stern.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

Karl, whose father served in the SAS, says the Army helped build his confidence, but the "damage was done" in his early childhood, with undiagnosed dyslexia making him a target for bullies.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

“I’m a hundred percent sure there are some bullies still there,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

“It is infectious to play a character who sees the best in people and isn’t mad at the world for all its foibles and bullies and shadows,” Sudeikis recently told the Hollywood Reporter.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

Why would anyone think you could discipline bullies by inviting them to talk about their feelings?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

I shouldn’t be adding to her troubles just because I can’t handle a few bullies.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

An ultra-online 20-something, she was a front row witness to Gamergate, yet somehow she’s shocked to overhear about middle-school girls getting bullied on Instagram.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Yet Newcastle's implosion was remarkable as a young team were bullied and outfought.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

In Mr. Harris’s telling, long before Augustus came to rule vast swaths of the earth, he was a sickly boy named Octavius, bullied by schoolmates until the far-stronger Agrippa became his protector.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Already being bullied and questioning her identity, she hid the fact she was sharing two rooms with six other family members for almost two years.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

I knew he was bullied a lot, and I knew his adoptive parents weren’t exactly stellar citizens.”

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

Fifty years ago, he says, bullying would have been relatively "private", and confined to "the classroom, in the halls, in the school".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Instagram’s terms of service prohibit intellectual property violations, spam, illegal content, hate speech, bullying and abuse, self-injury, graphic violence and inappropriate imagery that may include nudity or sexual content.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Australia implemented legislation barring children from social media platforms in December, part of a world-first crackdown designed to protect children from online bullying and "predatory algorithms".

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

Phones, as a portal to social media, have been linked to a variety of problems in school including fights, bullying and declining academic performance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

As it was, however, she was grazing close by, watching their play and every now and then moving in to cuff the strongest and stop him bullying the others.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams




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