bully
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“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
Convery has nicely feathered hair and a character burdened by the plot’s corniest contrivances: a bully stubbornly pursuing him to the literal end of civilization, a lost pet dog that he’s determined to rescue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Yes, Starlink may bully its way into mobility, but it would take years to acquire and clear the right spectrum,” he wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
The charity boss said there had also been a 4,500% increase in larger dogs associated with the XL bully - such as the Cane Corso and Presa Canario.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
I fought my tiger, and I won't let him bully me ever again!
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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“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
Though safe from the camera bullies, Patel’s classmate didn’t eat in front of anyone again until this school year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Are Premier League clubs now just flat-track bullies who can beat those with fewer resources but cannot transfer that into Champions League success?
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Unified could have — or should have — done more to protect her from campus bullies.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Max realized he’d stopped listening to the bullies.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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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
“I’m here to say today that we will not be bullied by these developers,” the governor said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
He was bullied as a child and coddled by his mother, but never received the unconditional love he craved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
"It is a stain on our history. Mothers, many young, vulnerable and without support were coerced, bullied or misled into feeling that they had no choice but to have their children taken away from them."
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Thoroughbreds run because they love to, but when overraced they can become stale and uninterested, especially when repeatedly trounced and bullied by their riders, as Seabiscuit was.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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She wrote a number of books, including ones about her life on tour, cookbooks and children’s books about her life and about the dangers of bullying.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Australia last year banned under 16s from the likes of Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, in a crackdown designed to protect children from online bullying and "predatory algorithms".
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
The announcement blindsided staff, who had been working with the couple on initiatives extending from online bullying to vaccination campaigns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
She has shared her experience of online bullying following the University of Gloucestershire publishing new research into what drives digital abuse.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
More than that, I had proof that he was sincere in his efforts to quash bullying.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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