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bullet

[bool-it] / ˈbʊl ɪt /


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He stacks bullet points along the side of the whiteboard, scribbles concepts and facts we throw at him.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Lined on the floor was box after box of ballpoint-pen-sized .50-caliber rounds; beside them lay a mound of bullet casings and a half-destroyed drone.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

They seek to disabuse their leaders of the fantasy that tourism will be a magic bullet that will somehow bring sustainable economic development to the area.

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

Hallaq's uncle, also named Mohammed Hallaq, told AFP that his nephew was killed by a stray bullet during a confrontation between the army patrol and a group of older youths.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

By turning on the pump, the bullet could be sucked out.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

According to GlobalSecurity, a private nonpartisan research organization on defense issues, it’s unlikely Meink was talking about any sorts of “kinetic” weapons—i.e., weapons that unleash bullets or bombs—since the resulting debris could also be self-destructive.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

He even devises a way to keep the goats corralled so that he doesn’t have to chase them down or use up his precious bullets and gunpowder.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Engineers said they were able to debunk some "myths", including that bullets can ricochet off the curve in the ballistic plate.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Asked about Valdez, Bis said law enforcement deployed chemical irritants including pepper balls, but not rubber bullets, after agitators attempted to breach the perimeter at Glass House Farms.

From Los Angeles Times May 26, 2026

Like so many bullets, the particles slam into air molecules in the upper atmosphere, knocking off fragments that in turn strike other air molecules.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

“Some demand aggressive, highly detailed redlines, while others require concise, high-level markups accompanied by bulleted executive summaries,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

He has used his office window, which overlooks the 101 Freeway, as a whiteboard of sorts, with a list of five bulleted words written in black marker on the glass: Empower.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2023

He noticed that he had most of the symptoms on the bulleted list.

From Scientific American Aug. 16, 2023

Next quarter Gannett will roll out a live pilot program using AI to identify the most important points of an article and create bulleted summaries at the top of it.

From Reuters Jun. 16, 2023

Screamer bulleted down and picked it out of the air.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Wright — out of necessity, or sanity-preservation — moves chronologically, bulleting each of their 25 albums and chasing Sparks' hope for fortune and adoration across their many troughs and peaks.

From Washington Post Jun. 17, 2021

With one snap of her head, she redirects all the momentum from the cross, bulleting the ball into the near corner.

From Slate Jun. 19, 2019

“Society to working moms:” she wrote in the April 18 post before bulleting a list of the unreasonable expectations the modern mother faces.

From Fox News Apr. 27, 2019

In the distance, a monstrous wheel of metal with a thousand sharp, jagged teeth spun wildly, tearing at the coal, sending shards of black rock bulleting through the air.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2015

He’s bulleting to the front door and I catch up with him.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera




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