steamroller
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No longer was Sinner the dominant force in tennis, the steamroller who had come in riding a 30-match winning streak and the prohibitive favorite to win his first French Open.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
"It's been the steamroller all season. That's the one thing you could take to the bank," said Davis.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
Samoa and Australia also succumbed to the steamroller.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
Awards season steamroller “ Oppenheimer ” is among the nominees for the PGA’s top award to be handed out later Sunday night.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2024
The small personal satisfaction he felt came from his having passed one of the most grueling tests of his career by showing the courage “to ‘stand up in meeting’ and say ‘No’ to a steamroller.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
In Ganim, about two dozen pre-fabricated homes have already been installed, while steamrollers and other construction machinery busily created new space for future houses on the hillside on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
There’s some nostalgia involved, sure, tied up with memories of dancing with your goth girlfriends at New Wave Dance Night, but all three of those songs on a random Friday in Ohio were total steamrollers.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
They were respected in the way that steamrollers are.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2021
COVID-19 has also stopped the steamrollers state officials thought would be in high gear by now after approving Pritzker’s Rebuild Illinois capital improvement plan last spring.
From Washington Times ● May 22, 2020
In fact, our charter has very much in mind keeping majorities from turning into steamrollers.
From Fox News ● Feb. 18, 2019
Giving up a deficit of 311 runs, India were in danger of being steamrollered when Chris Woakes removed Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sai Sudharsan in consecutive deliveries in the first over of the second innings.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025
New Zealand, on the back of an historic 3-0 series win in India, started this series as favourites only to be steamrollered in barely seven days of Test cricket.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024
And believe me, I should have known better than to get steamrollered into a bad trade.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2024
MacMichael steamrollered his opponents with a clear, concise argument.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
However much Jack wants to believe that Terry’s fine and dandy with this plan, Molly knows that he steamrollered her into it.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
Generative AI is steamrollering the once booming industry known as software-as-a-service, or SaaS, where customers access software over the internet, typically on a subscription basis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
They have got the opportunity to rest several players here but I don't think they will, and I can see them steamrollering over Argentina in the same way.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2023
The stretch includes a second-half steamrollering of ASU in the middle of last season that gave Utah control of the South division.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
England’s dominant forward pack pushed the Americans around all night — steamrollering through them, scampering past them, bulling over them — to score seven tries on the way to a 45-7 blowout in Kobe.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2019
But Fury has been imagining that steamrollering right hand, planning for it, digging into his own obsession.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2018
