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
"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
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
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
“Halt and Catch Fire” takes the opposite approach: IBM, known as Big Blue, is the Goliath that steamrollers all competitors, and Joe is the David.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2014
Thomas du Toit had already steamrollered over for one try by then.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
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
Her albums were steamrollered outside of her label’s offices in Rockefeller Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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.
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
East and they played like it, steamrollering the Giants, 35-17.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2019
But Fury has been imagining that steamrollering right hand, planning for it, digging into his own obsession.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2018
