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  • verb Present participle of bulldoze.

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Examples

  • There has been more of the "night-riding," the whippings, the mysterious disappearances, the hangings, and the terrorism comprehended in the term bulldozing than has been reported by those "abstracts and brief chronicles of the time," the Southern newspapers, which are now all of one party, and defer to the ruling sentiment among the whites.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • There has been more of the "night-riding," the whippings, the mysterious disappearances, the hangings, and the terrorism comprehended in the term bulldozing than has been reported by those "abstracts and brief chronicles of the time," the Southern newspapers, which are now all of one party, and defer to the ruling sentiment among the whites.

    The Negro Exodus 1879

  • And the removal of the cruel whip-hand, or in other words the bulldozing half-breed, had brought with it a joyous reaction.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • And the removal of the cruel whip-hand, or in other words the bulldozing half-breed, had brought with it a joyous reaction.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • And finally - it is bernacke who put the idea of bulldozing excessin the market forward, not Greenspna.

    Obama Pokes Fun At Hillary's Shot-And-A-Beer 2009

  • And the removal of the cruel whip-hand, or in other words the bulldozing half-breed, had brought with it a joyous reaction.

    In a Far Country 1900

  • And the removal of the cruel whiphand, or in other words the bulldozing half-breed, had brought with it a joyous reaction.

    The Son of the Wolf Jack London 1896

  • I recall the bulldozing, the taunts, jeers and epithets hurled against them.

    The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man, 1895

  • Actually, no, that's called bulldozing the swamp that nurtures you.

    RealClimate 2009

  • Actually, no, that's called bulldozing the swamp that nurtures you.

    RealClimate 2009

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