BULLDOZINGS Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

bulldozings

noun

plural of bulldozing

as in browbeatings

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Noun

Mostly an interior tackle, Echoles did a little bit of everything up front for the Rebels in his sophomore season (39 pressures as a first-year starter).

— Nick Baumgardner, New York Times, 22 July 2026
Across 356 pass block snaps as a senior, Shelton allowed just 18 pressures and one sack.

— Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 July 2026

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Living in Alpine, Anderson has had to evacuate his home because of wildfire threats, and noted that CalFire, the county and the community learned from the fires and are much better prepared now than in the past.

— Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2026
Starmer’s finance minister, Rachel Reeves, was ousted, replaced by John Healey, a former defense secretary who resigned in June and accused the Treasury of failing to spend enough on the military at a time of rising threats.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 July 2026

Definition of threats

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The Saudis can reroute that oil north through the Suez Canal, but the largest, fully laden oil tankers can’t get through that way because of depth constraints, noted Natasha Kaneva, head of global commodities strategy at JPMorgan.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 24 July 2026
Berman, who has never constructed a building from the ground up, told me his willingness to work around such constraints was his competitive edge.

— Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026

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