as in bullying
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as in intimidating
to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats
one of those gatherings at which high-pressure sales reps try to bulldoze naive people into buying time-shares
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Noun
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If your health is suffering from burnout or workplace bullying, then quitting for your own self-preservation could be the smartest move.—
Caroline Ceniza-Levine,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025 -
And if Trump’s bullying stems from weakness, what about Newsom’s? Dan Walters is a CalMatters columnist.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
20 May 2025
Verb
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With the MacBook Air launching earlier than the iPhone SE and ahead of the next Apple Intelligence update, this points to a press release launch and Apple pushing its consumer laptops further into the background.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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That presents some planning opportunities, including possibly pushing some SALT payments into 2026.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Relapse is alluring, Bart is intimidating, and Son is mysterious.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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While the market’s recent volatility can be intimidating, experts generally recommend investors focus on their long-term goals.—
Ana Teresa Solá,
CNBC,
14 Mar. 2025
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The France captain arrived last summer with pressure on his shoulders from being a longstanding target for the club and its president, Florentino Perez, since his breakthrough at Monaco in 2016-17.—
Guillermo Rai,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
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These memory foam flip-flops have arch support that’ll help relieve pressure on your joints, according to the brand.—
Rylee Johnston,
Travel + Leisure,
27 May 2025
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This era demonstrated how hegemony involves more than coercion.—
Andrew Latham,
The Conversation,
30 May 2025
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Ventura Fine finally came forward in November 2023, filing a lawsuit alleging that Combs kept her locked in the abusive relationship through frequent beatings, coercion, control over her career and blackmail.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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Schools everywhere feel the threat, and hope to avoid the government’s scrutiny.—
John Branch,
New York Times,
1 June 2025
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The success of the nonprofit’s threat to discontinue animal-welfare services in San Diego may reflect the huge reserve of goodwill the Humane Society has built up over many decades.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 June 2025
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On this album, his sonic palette borrows heavily from the pop-rock of the 1980s, which had an undercurrent of light menace cutting through its sensual schlock.—
Jon Caramanica,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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What separates this from, say, a Roy Andersson movie is the creeping sense of Parallax View-style menace that sets in; there’s a sense that Kornyev is getting in over his head, never quite reading the room and making enemies that are each cumulatively more dangerous than the last.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
14 May 2025
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On the agenda: discussions about the various ways antisemitic rhetoric can lead to violence.—
Andrew Lapin,
Sun Sentinel,
27 May 2025
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Gun violence in the US Thousands of people die from firearm injuries in the U.S. each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.—
Natalie Demaree,
Miami Herald,
27 May 2025
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“Bulldozing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bulldozing. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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