steamroller
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"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
It took a combination of every single element that transformed Indiana from an afterthought into college football’s 16-0 steamroller this season: a perfect storm of bold coaching, undervalued talent, and gamechanging guts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
"It was like a steamroller that crushed everything," Nasrine, a teacher who did not give her last name, told AFP in her destroyed neighbourhood in Pamandzi.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024
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
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
Scabrous, painful and true, it tracks a high school senior who, in his ambitions to be a comic-book artist of the highest, purest order, steamrollers over nearly everyone in his life.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
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
Edmund steamrollers – again – to 0-40 with a cute forehand to claim 10 straight points.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2018
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
That whole PR edifice came crashing down Sunday, when Welker got steamrollered by Donald Trump on national television.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
Mike Atherton's team steamrollered Australia for 118 on the opening day of the 1997 series at Edgbaston, but then lost 3-2.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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
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
This vision of capitalism’s demise is slightly puzzling, given that in his account, capitalism seems to be steamrollering everything in its path.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2018
That defeat, of course, gave him the platform to make that inspired switch to a back three and, instead of imploding, Chelsea began to motor, steamrollering away from their title rivals.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2017
