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bullet

[bool-it] / ˈbʊl ɪt /


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"I'm looking at ways to spread the cost when I have to bite the bullet and get it," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

"AI will never be a silver bullet," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 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

But the emails show California Forever boosters fear Mashburn has another bullet in the chamber.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

They could use X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs to locate the bullet, reveal the damage to his ribs and vertebrae, and show that his organs and spinal cord were uninjured.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

The three bullets found in Kovtun’s apartment were of the same caliber.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Albanian law allows the police to use rubber bullets during protests only in extreme cases.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

By arming her mammies with revolvers, rifles and bullets, Saar turned a symbol of servility into one of militancy and power.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

Frankie clung to my trail, following me past riveted metal machines, past imposing cannons and naval guns, past armored plates and display cases of mortars and bullets.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

Oksi bulleted down from the sky and alighted on the wooden box.

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

It crashes down on the ball, bulleting it over the net.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson


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