bucking

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Rocket, the mortgage financing company that owns the home listings website Redfin, was bucking the trend.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Matt Rossell, a member of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, an animal welfare group, took the microphone and mentioned a recent incident at the Orange County Fair when a bucking bull suffered a fatal injury.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Sixteen minutes into “Obsession” — the massively popular, shoestring-budget horror film breaking box office records and bucking expectations left and right — writer-director Curry Barker gives it all away.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

Meanwhile, only two sectors have remained bucking this decline, with jobs in chemical and pharmaceutical industries slightly higher since 2019, the report finds.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Then he’d realized that nobody found this funny, because they were all so impressed at the way Harry had managed to stay on his bucking broomstick.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling