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trample

[tram-puhl] / ˈtræm pəl /


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It was hard squaring the hulking mass of midshipmen who would nearly trample me at Herndon with these two polite teenagers prone to nervous laughter.

From Slate Jun. 24, 2026

He even gets neighboring sheep farmers to bring their herds into his fields to trample the soil and eat the leftover plants.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

"In Italy, we don't want those who trample on human rights and act outside of any democratic control," he wrote on X.

From Barron's Jan. 27, 2026

But urbanisation has seen encroachment onto these age-old grazing routes and locals accuse the Fulani of letting their cattle trample their crops and forcing them out of their homes and fields.

From BBC Nov. 27, 2025

Nothing but hot, black, bare ground and delicate white filaments of ash, which stirred and crumbled under the trample of bare feet.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Martinique official Serge Letchimy hailed a vote that he said had come "to shatter a system that tramples on the truth, absolves the guilty, and scorns the victims".

From Barron's Jun. 2, 2026

“We are not a nation that tramples the 4th Amendment and tolerates our neighbors being terrorized,” he said.

From Salon Jan. 29, 2026

"The fascination of glow worms for me is that they are in effect magic," says ecologist Pete Cooper, as he tramples through thistles and nettles.

From BBC Oct. 27, 2023

“It tramples on students’ rights,” Bonta told reporters.

From Seattle Times Aug. 28, 2023

Rémy walks beside the chair as it tramples over lightly frosted ground.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

And he barred the hospital from “aiding and abetting” any other party that might ask for help from these courts, including the children whose rights will be trampled by disclosure of their records.

From Slate May 19, 2026

From a standoff over a US Secret Service agent’s weapon to a US staffer trampled during a melee, tensions bubbled to the surface throughout Trump's visit to Beijing.

From Barron's May 15, 2026

An alarming study published in 2025 found that a population of rare galaxy frogs disappeared from the Western Ghats after photographers trampled over their delicate forest floor habitat.

From BBC May 2, 2026

When he unleashes the Klaebo stride, his opponents know they’re about to get trampled.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 16, 2026

Then I saw the marsh grass part, and two other brown bodies trampled through the grasses and mud.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

They were under strict instructions from Soils Solutions to avoid trampling the new lawn for six months.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

He saw more trash, several guests going off trail and trampling plant life, and far fewer park rangers to tell them to stop.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Bryson DeChambeau's two-shot penalty for trampling rough that improved the line of his swing path last Friday will not be forgotten.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

DeChambeau was accused of trampling on long grass close to his ball on the fifth hole.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

We sprint back to my house, cutting through lawns and trampling a few flowerbeds.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller




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