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bullet

[bool-it] / ˈbʊl ɪt /


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The law "is loaded and now has more bullets. But there is no magic bullet solution", Tay said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

"You can think of it like shooting a bullet through, say, water," Yi said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

There’s no silver bullet for guilt — it’s a daily practice.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Tovey said bringing in the army, while helpful, "is not a silver bullet" as they do not have the firefighting skills needed.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

I mentally ran through the bullet points that I could remember.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 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

The case against the woman who authorities allege fired multiple bullets at pop singer Rihanna’s Beverly Hills mansion can move forward, a judge ruled Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Up trooped O B. Dickerson, drosed now with his badge on and his belt full of bullets rilling low under his belly.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

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

From out of nowhere bulleted the female goshawk.

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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