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trample

[tram-puhl] / ˈtræm pəl /


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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

Joe Middleton, Devon site manager for the Woodland Trust, said: "Stay on the path, keep your dog on a lead, use the zoom on your camera, don't trample all over them."

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

Don’t trample or pick the flowers and stay on the paths because even barren ground could have seeds germinating beneath.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

The Hephaestus chariot was now dangerously close, their horses about to trample us underfoot.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

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

"The fascination of glow worms for me is that they are in effect magic," says ecologist Pete Cooper, as he tramples through thistles and nettles.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2023

“It tramples on students’ rights,” Bonta told reporters.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

Rémy walks beside the chair as it tramples over lightly frosted ground.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

The Panthers were trampled by Tampa Bay, giving up 258 yards on the ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

That beauty would soon be trampled beneath the Japanese advance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

As for Serbia, the lead singer of rock band Lavina was so tortured by someone who "trampled on his heart" that he ended his song with a blood-curdling scream.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

And then she saw the boot prints ending in a trampled place under the tree.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

It’s sad his children didn’t learn that lesson and instead are trampling the legacy he hoped to leave behind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

The difficulty is finding a way to minimize their capacity to control territory without trampling republican values.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

“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

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

The Death Down already stood there, black and tall and stony, and the great trampling and scoring of the grass by the Huorns could be plainly seen.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien


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