trample
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DeChambeau appeared to trample down long grass as he addressed his ball for a practice swing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 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
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
Rattling, jostling wagons, ahead of us and beside us, threaten to crash and trample.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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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
"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
William sees it, spins around, and nearly tramples Jeanne and Jacob—and me.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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USC was trampled throughout by a Rutgers offense which, heading into Saturday, had an interception on more than 10% of its passes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Raging at another exit, raging that when the chips were down too many of his fellow players panicked and allowed themselves to be overrun, raging at professional pride being trampled underfoot for all to see.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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
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
Even if I'm sure to be trampled on the way, I've got to get to Auntie Seema's apartment, and all I have is the part of her address I remember from the cardboard box.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
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They were under strict instructions from Soils Solutions to avoid trampling the new lawn for six months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Bryson DeChambeau's two-shot penalty for trampling rough that improved the line of his swing path last Friday will not be forgotten.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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
"We don't need humans trampling flowers to add to the list of pressures that our wildlife is already facing," he said.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
For obvious reasons its farmers did not relish the prospect of buffalo herds trampling through their fields.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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