bullied
Example Sentences
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An ultra-online 20-something, she was a front row witness to Gamergate, yet somehow she’s shocked to overhear about middle-school girls getting bullied on Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Musk’s forthright, crusty dad Errol sounds almost proud that something was bullied out of his son, but the movie avoids filling out that traumatic childhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
At a separate press conference on Wednesday, Portadown District Master Nigel Dawson said the lodge would "not be bullied or threatened by any residents' group who step outside the law".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
In Mr. Harris’s telling, long before Augustus came to rule vast swaths of the earth, he was a sickly boy named Octavius, bullied by schoolmates until the far-stronger Agrippa became his protector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The reader gets the feeling that he’s being bullied rather than persuaded.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
