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bully

[bool-ee] / ˈbʊl i /




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“It’s always been our tradition. We’ve always stuck a flag out in front of our home and it will always be that way. These people aren’t going to bully me.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Some experts believe the XL bully ban, external and "alpha-style dog training" is encouraging mistreatment of related types.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

The state superintendent also typically takes advantage of the bully pulpit on education issues.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2026

School districts have been implementing phone bans because of classroom distraction as well as students using them to film fights, spread gossip and bully one another.

From The Wall Street Journal May 30, 2026

I would have sat home and let other people go be missionaries if they wanted to, bully for them!

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Inappropriate comments or messages are filtered out and cyber bullies are blocked.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

Though safe from the camera bullies, Patel’s classmate didn’t eat in front of anyone again until this school year.

From The Wall Street Journal May 30, 2026

Unified could have — or should have — done more to protect her from campus bullies.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

The severity of seemingly mundane, everyday anxieties — school bullies, the prom, graduation, obnoxious Cher-obsessed college roommates — is on par with demons trying to hasten the apocalypse.

From Salon Mar. 26, 2026

Leo had done the same kind of stuff to bullies for years.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Growing up, I was bullied so she was a very big part of me being more positive about myself.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

"It is a stain on our history. Mothers, many young, vulnerable and without support were coerced, bullied or misled into feeling that they had no choice but to have their children taken away from them."

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

Raised by her mother in a small terrace council house with rotting window frames and no upstairs heating in a former mining town near Sunderland, she was bullied at school and received free school meals.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

“Instead of actually listening to us and providing evidence of studies or environmental impact statements, we just get called names and bullied and defamed on national television.”

From Salon Jun. 12, 2026

Luke and I drove across into the city and Luke bullied the superintendent into opening up the apartment.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Last year, he said, it surfaced a surge in teenagers talking about bullying, so he built a lesson around it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

“The era of bullying and extortion is over,” wrote Mohammad Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliamentary speaker.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Those included instances of discrimination and bullying, misuse of corporate funds and breaches of data integrity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

In the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, which has long limited outside influence, viral videos of school bullying have triggered debate over social media's erosion of traditional values.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

But I don’t think what I did was bullying!

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio




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