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bullet

[bool-it] / ˈbʊl ɪt /


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An RMP investigator confirmed to the BBC that they had seen photographs from the scene and that the bullet mark patterns had raised alarm among the Operation Northmoor team.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The bullet points included starting with strong, committed ownership; delivering a good product; establishing credibility and trust with fans and media; and hiring good people and letting them do their jobs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

His son, meanwhile, was a switch hitter who could throw a bullet from shortstop to first.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Third, and perhaps most importantly: there is no silvicultural silver bullet for managing forests.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

The fact that Garfield's doctors inserted unwashed fingers into the bullet wound proved that they had NOT followed Lister's antiseptic methods.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

He was disturbed by images of fans being hit with rubber bullets and equipment being stolen, but also realized the band’s trajectory had suddenly changed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

It has led to a tony version of an old western shoot-out, with opinion pieces in Aspen’s two local newspapers replacing revolver bullets and $8 matcha lattes at Sant Ambroeus swapped for 10-cent beers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Known as magnetofossils, the microscopic structures come in shapes resembling spearheads, spindles, bullets, and needles.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

Conkers for bullets, crab apples and windfallen pears for heavy artillery.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

But if AI can turn a 16,000-email disaster area into simple bulleted lists, I might finally make peace with my thousands of unreads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 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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