trample
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State Historic Park, wipe out dozens of trees and trample a space that was carefully designed with years of community input.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
It was hard squaring the hulking mass of midshipmen who would nearly trample me at Herndon with these two polite teenagers prone to nervous laughter.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
He even gets neighboring sheep farmers to bring their herds into his fields to trample the soil and eat the leftover plants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
The FPA called on the police to "immediately take action against the officers involved in this unprovoked assault and to act in the future to safeguard press freedoms, rather than trample upon them."
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
Knowing she wouldn’t stand by to watch cattle trample our crops, my fear turned to confusion and I sidled up to Ma.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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Martinique official Serge Letchimy hailed a vote that he said had come "to shatter a system that tramples on the truth, absolves the guilty, and scorns the victims".
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
“We are not a nation that tramples the 4th Amendment and tolerates our neighbors being terrorized,” he said.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2026
They argue it tramples on local control, even though SB 35 and SB 423 say developers must follow cities’ existing zoning and design standards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
Users on the popular Sina Weibo social network have called the incident "lawless" and have posted that such behaviour "tramples on people's civil rights".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2022
I don’t move because my cowardice tramples me, even as I try to lift my spirit from its knees.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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And he barred the hospital from “aiding and abetting” any other party that might ask for help from these courts, including the children whose rights will be trampled by disclosure of their records.
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
From a standoff over a US Secret Service agent’s weapon to a US staffer trampled during a melee, tensions bubbled to the surface throughout Trump's visit to Beijing.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Crowds in recent years have damaged trails, trampled plants and clogged rural roads.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
"She deserves better than having her grave trampled on," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
One conductor stepped on my bare toe, crushed it, as he trampled past.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
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“Neither Udio, nor any other generative AI company, can be allowed to advance toward this goal by trampling the rights of copyright owners.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
He saw more trash, several guests going off trail and trampling plant life, and far fewer park rangers to tell them to stop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
DeChambeau was accused of trampling on long grass close to his ball on the fifth hole.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
That makes them prone to trampling, said Candace Fallon, a senior endangered species conservation biologist at science nonprofit Xerces Society.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Very quickly a crowd poured into the trader’s garden, trampling the plants and forming a semicircle in front of the house.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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