run roughshod over
Example Sentences
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Isaacson writes that Musk’s “reality-distorting willfulness” and his “readiness to run roughshod over naysayers” may be “superpowers that produced his successes along with his flame-outs.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2023
The two-stock theory, Pinchin posits, thus "allowed humans to run roughshod over one of the world's most contested species for decades."
From Salon • Aug. 2, 2023
After making waves in the voice-acting space, it was perhaps inevitable that this technology would run roughshod over the recorded music industry, perhaps taking the easy route through some of its biggest hitmakers.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2023
But he focused on the repercussions when a firm like FTX, which was based in the Bahamas, can run roughshod over the U.S. economy.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2022
This thing of letting a cur like that run roughshod over a man on account of a girl that didn't care was plumb idiotic.
From Rowdy of the Cross L by Bower, B. M.
