bulldog
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Unlike her ruthless character on the show, she said she was more of a "kill them with kindness kind of girl rather than a blatantly bullish bulldog".
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
It’s her fourth time participating, and last year she secured second place, losing to a 2-year-old hairless Frenchie and English bulldog mix named Petunia who had been rescued from a backyard breeder in Las Vegas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
At the time, Ibrahimovic had an English bulldog who could handle going downhill, but struggled going the other way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Steph Roberts, from Ashford, Kent, told the BBC she has been stuck at the Calais terminal with her husband Robert and bulldog Dempsey since 10:30.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025
Mr. Ingram next door to them probably won’t like that I run through his yard and get his old bulldog worked up.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
“Due to the unique anatomy of their airways, bulldogs can experience more respiratory distress in their golden years and may also have a harder time regulating their temperature as a result,” Greenstein says.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
French bulldogs lead the charge for character-actor canines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
You got some of the biggest bulldogs in Congress on the R and D side all working on this.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Dogs pant to keep themselves cool, but the shorter snouts of certain flat-faced breeds like bulldogs and pugs make this difficult.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2025
Aunt Marge lived in the country, in a house with a large garden, where she bred bulldogs.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
The Federal Board took its cues from the State but the final decision on the status of any lot of oil actually rested on a bulldogged, stone-steady gentleman named Captain E. N. Stanley.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hughes's bulldogged determination could make things interesting at the end.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the Africans who publicly agreed with Stevenson was Nigeria's earthy, bulldogged Foreign Minister Jaja Wachuku, who noted that the wild, radical charges were not "the only opinion that exists within the African scene."
From Time Magazine Archive
Rozier is a brute with guile, whose balance is such that he seems to be bulldogged off the field more often than he is tumbled off his feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
With my three little traps and a bulldogged determination, I set out to trap Mister Ringtail.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
“And the amount of energy and the amount of focus you need to have in bulldogging is the same as in football.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
Fort Collins, for instance, was supposed to have goat roping, steer bulldogging competitions, a shooting exhibition from the U.S.
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2021
William “Bill” Pickett was a famous rodeo star credited with founding the sport bulldogging, also known as steer wrestling.
From Fox News ● Jul. 3, 2020
“Some guys just have a knack of bulldogging their way through an inning, you know?”
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2014
Mr. Huxley stopped in a few times while they were there, to take breaks from his bulldogging and to get more direction and advice from Charles.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
