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steamroll

[steem-rohl] / ˈstimˌroʊl /








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If you are Aberdeen, you're going to play it off the full-backs, get at them through the middle, and they will steamroll Hearts.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

"If we don't then I fear that that we will die a slow death, because it will just steamroll over us," Tiller told AFP.

From Barron's Feb. 21, 2026

But in her novel, rather than satirize or steamroll, Shriver takes her open-armed and open-borders characters as seriously and empathetically as her anti-immigration ones.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 31, 2026

After watching Notre Dame’s duo of Jeremiyah Love and Jadarian Price steamroll USC’s defensive front, Nebraska offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen surely smells blood in the water.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 31, 2025

“This could steamroll into something as unmanageable as Pacheco’s pig. Any fool can see that.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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