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For much of his second term, Trump has seemed to bestride the globe, lavishing his attention on a wide range of international issues.

From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026

‘Spartacus’ Kirk Douglas doth bestride the screen like Colossus as the titular gladiator turned rebel leader in Stanley Kubrick’s epic 1960 historical drama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2022

It is a rare feat for a civil-rights luminary, even on the local level, to bestride generations, as the dearly missed U.S.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2020

Solar panels are being nailed to rooftops, colossal wind turbines bestride the plains and oceans, and a million electric vehicles are on U.S. roads — and it isn’t enough.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2018

He liked the appearance of the steel-grey mustang; and had become inspired with an insatiable longing to bestride it.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Reid, Mayne

He bestrides a real estate empire worth $25 billion, according to Forbes, a portfolio that includes 56 cottages, 12 homes and seven palaces.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2023

New Zealand, noted for its gorgeous geography and modest population of 5 million, bestrides an important geostrategic location between the South Pacific and Antarctica.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

Amazon is a behemoth that bestrides several economic sectors.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

The U.S. remains immensely powerful, but it no longer bestrides the world like a colossus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2015

Wearing embroidered palikari vest, puffy-sleeved poukamiso, and pleated foustanella skirt, my grandfather bestrides the gangway- He pauses a moment to look out at the audience, but the bright lights blind him.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm crested the world; his voice was propertied ... as all the tuned spheres.

From Time Magazine Archive

Neuer bestrid a Horse saue one, that had A Rider like my selfe, who ne're wore Rowell, Nor Iron on his heele?

From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William

That horse, that thou so often hast bestrid; That horse, that I so carefully have dress'd!

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

And I bestrid A Porcupine that never prickt.

From Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Potts, Thomas, fl. 1612-1618

That horse that thou so often hast bestrid; That horse that I so carefully have dressed!

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

The U.S. bestrode the world like a colossus, and manufacturing was central to our dominance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

Casemiro, a sad and fading shadow of the great player who bestrode Real Madrid's midfield through their Champions League glories, simply strolled out.

From BBC ● May 12, 2024

He bestrode the tabloid newspapers and craved headlines and front pages.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

He was sentenced to three years in prison, two of them suspended, in what was a stunning fall from grace for a former president who once bestrode the world.

From Reuters ● May 17, 2023

And his heel did press and goad on the quivering flank bestrode, Toll slowly.

From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various

James Ramsay MacDonald, onetime British Prime Minister, said last week: "I have never bestridden a bicycle because I have no balance of that sort."

From Time Magazine Archive

After him came the camel, all over tassels and gold net, bestridden by Kelly Eyre, wearing a costume seldom seen anywhere, and never in the Sahara.

From The Maids of Paradise by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

While so employed, he could not help reflecting that the nag was just a trifle too good to be bestridden by a secret police-agent.

From The Day of Wrath by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

Compare your description with this from Stevenson: "The town came down the hill in a cascade of brown gables, bestridden by smooth white roofs, and spangled here and there with lighted windows."

From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)

In this race three horses outdistanced all the others; the great bay ridden by Colonel Washington, a snappy little gray bestridden by the colonel's boy bugler, and my own mount.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

But then a Hollywood movie star — who was also a uniquely magnetic performer on the musical stage — rode into town, bestriding a vehicle perfectly suited to his outsize talents.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2022

Indeed, many historians and political experts say that as the 106th mayor of New York, from 1990-93, Dinkins suffered by comparison with the Gullivers bestriding him.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2020

It seems long ago that she was wielding her symbolic handbag of power in Parliament and bestriding the world stage as the Iron Lady of a still-great peacetime Britain.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2019

THE only media mogul still bestriding his industry in old-fashioned style is used to being a predator rather than prey, a builder of empires, not a dismantler of them.

From Economist ● Nov. 23, 2017

Unlike the suffering, earthbound Christs depicted at eye level on the church walls, our Christ Pantocrator was clearly transcendent, all-powerful, heaven- bestriding.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides