bully
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It should be to keep the bully from taking over the playground by refusing intimidation, empowering the bystanders and enforcing boundaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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
“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
“It’s always been our tradition. We’ve always stuck a flag out in front of our home and it will always be that way. These people aren’t going to bully me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Mrs. Parker couldn’t leave well enough alone and kept telling the class what a bully I was.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
Sutton said his old club have been "flat-track bullies" by "beating the teams you expect them to beat", but the collapse in Austria, plus Sunday's bruising loss, has highlighted glaring deficiencies.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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
In a statement published in the Virginian-Pilot, Truelove said he drove to Granby High School in Norfolk because he thought bullies were threatening the school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
There are terrible thoughts about loud storms, louder alarms, lightning hitting trees, Frank being gone, Daniel yelling...And one more thought that bullies past the others.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
“I wouldn’t be bullied by him,” Farage says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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
We only know them through the prism of men: Jane lusts after Yoga Dude, Coco rages at Roger, Sophie is bullied by her boss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
She wasn’t going to be bullied about this, especially not after he skipped out on them with the kids still sick.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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
Canada’s leadership has indicated for months a willingness to fight against perceived bullying by the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 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
That can make socialising and pursuing hobbies difficult as well as lead to higher rates of bullying, school absence and even suspensions.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
If anything, he was probably the one who did the bullying.
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
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