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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

Dorothy who had not hesitated to bestride Farmer Cole’s boar, and was absolutely fearless as far as Hobo was concerned, retreated panic-stricken before Freckles’ advances.

From Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted by Harriet L.

Amazon is a behemoth that bestrides several economic sectors.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

If Mr. Driver bestrides “Burn This” like a colossus — could he really be only 6-foot-2, as Wikipedia has it? — everyone else seems to shrink beneath his shadow when he’s onstage.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2019

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2015

As a politician Hillary Clinton bestrides the landscape like a colossus.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 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

These Warriours on a sort of Coursers rid, Ne’r log’d in Stables, or by Man bestrid.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Harold Whitmore Jones

Hermes the winged Horse bestrid, 70And thorow thick and thin he rid, And floundred throw the Fountaine.

From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett

To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He bestrode a web of personal connections that deeply influenced intellectual life in mid-19th-century America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

Before he bestrode the continent and prefigured the ghastliness of modern European history — religious impulses sublimated in politics — Napoleon Bonaparte was an artillery captain.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2022

Her limbs bestrode the prostrate nations to the extremities of the earth; her head lowered to the clouds, whilst the right hand of the gigantic monster brandished a burning torch.

From Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures by Logan Mitchell

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

He had bestridden the nervous pinto and Molly was “acting up.”

From Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure by Amy Bell Marlowe

Byram came in to rehearse the opening processional and to rebuke his dearest foe, the unspeakable “camuel,” bestridden by Mrs. Horan as Fatima, Queen of the Desert.

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

There loomed, at thirty feet away, colossal beasts bestridden by giants.

From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston

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 Francis Lynde

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

“We have a royal family that befits the idea of an empire bestriding half the globe,” said Alan Rusbridger, a former editor of The Guardian.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2020

When he was bestriding the nation, Gershwin was the most modern guy around; 82 years later — guess what? — he still is.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2019

Barely two feet tall, it is the humble ancestor to every monstrous welded metal assemblage bestriding today’s urban landscapes.

From Economist ● Sep. 24, 2015

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