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trample

[tram-puhl] / ˈtræm pəl /


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It was hard squaring the hulking mass of midshipmen who would nearly trample me at Herndon with these two polite teenagers prone to nervous laughter.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

One running gag involves the hotel’s irritation at the nearby goats who trample on the hoods of parked cars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

"In Italy, we don't want those who trample on human rights and act outside of any democratic control," he wrote on X.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

Not even the creature’s eloquence moves Victor to self-reflection: “O Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other, and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

He is so much like me when I was ten, so unlike our Mitt, whom Lelia and my father and I let raucously trample over all our custom and ceremony.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Martinique official Serge Letchimy hailed a vote that he said had come "to shatter a system that tramples on the truth, absolves the guilty, and scorns the victims".

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

“We are not a nation that tramples the 4th Amendment and tolerates our neighbors being terrorized,” he said.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2026

“It tramples on students’ rights,” Bonta told reporters.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

Users on the popular Sina Weibo social network have called the incident "lawless" and have posted that such behaviour "tramples on people's civil rights".

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2022

Rémy walks beside the chair as it tramples over lightly frosted ground.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Shortly after coming off the course, DeChambeau is driven off to the fifth hole by rules officials to discuss whether he trampled down grass near his ball.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Then, in a separate incident, he was trampled unconscious by cattle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

And he barred the hospital from “aiding and abetting” any other party that might ask for help from these courts, including the children whose rights will be trampled by disclosure of their records.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

From a standoff over a US Secret Service agent’s weapon to a US staffer trampled during a melee, tensions bubbled to the surface throughout Trump's visit to Beijing.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

I dropped my eyes and brushed my foot back and forth across the trampled grass.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

They were under strict instructions from Soils Solutions to avoid trampling the new lawn for six months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

DeChambeau was accused of trampling on long grass close to his ball on the fifth hole.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

That makes them prone to trampling, said Candace Fallon, a senior endangered species conservation biologist at science nonprofit Xerces Society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Sheep have been trampling over graves and chewing up flowers at a cemetery, upsetting bereaved families with loved ones buried there.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

One day they were on the point of trampling Úrsula, who made an effort to be useful precisely where she was most in the way.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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