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
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
The horses stopped at the wire and rumbled a little, but apparently decided not to barge through the flimsy barbed strands and trample him to death.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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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
Williams’ charismatic goldendoodle, Alf, holds court in the studio: he tramples over Williams, curls his body around Farro’s neck like an exquisite wriggling scarf, then finally curls himself into a ball next to me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
Rémy walks beside the chair as it tramples over lightly frosted ground.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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
That saddens me massively and showed that our way of life has been hugely affected and trampled on as a result of these threats.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
It’s easy to oversimplify what was undoubtedly a rapid and dramatic expansion, and to picture all Khoisan in the way being trampled by onrushing Bantu hordes.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
"When I was on the floor, people were trampling me," the 30-year-old told the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
His ball was found and videos surfaced of the 32-year-old American seemingly trampling down some knee-high rough behind his ball.
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
A trampling down the narrow hallway, past Mitch, who looks up in surprise, but we are already out the door and down the steps before she can respond.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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