as in bragged
to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess
no one bought all his bulling about how he had beaten the stock market
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Recent Examples of bulled
Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 18 Nov. 2025
Cathedral closed to 14-7 when Fa’alave-Johnson took a direct snap and bulled 16 yards into the end zone.
—Bernie Wilson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
Federal officers fired rubber bulled and used tear gas.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
Defensively, the 49ers were down to only a few healthy starters before kickoff, and one of them, cornerback Deommodore Lenoir, got bulled over at one point by Raiders rookie Ashton Jeanty.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
Three plays later, Kareem Hunt bulled his way into the end zone and the Chiefs had tied the game.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 18 Nov. 2025
Cathedral closed to 14-7 when Fa’alave-Johnson took a direct snap and bulled 16 yards into the end zone.
—Bernie Wilson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
Federal officers fired rubber bulled and used tear gas.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
Defensively, the 49ers were down to only a few healthy starters before kickoff, and one of them, cornerback Deommodore Lenoir, got bulled over at one point by Raiders rookie Ashton Jeanty.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bulled
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The game finished 1-0 but FIFA ordered the whole match to be replayed (Uzbekistan pushed for an automatic 3-0 win, or at the very least to restart play from the 38th minute, when the penalty incident occurred, and with them a goal up).—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
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Walz pushed back against claims during a Capitol Hill hearing in March.—
Conor Wight,
CBS News,
9 June 2026
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Andrew openly discussed bribing law-enforcement officials in War Room chats, and bragged on social media about his connections.—
Heidi Blake,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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The center bragged for months about robust private donations, but Floca said in a court filing this spring that the number was in the tens of millions, not more than $100 million.—
Janay Kingsberry,
The Atlantic,
6 June 2026
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Freddie Freeman squeezed one inside the left-field foul pole in the first inning, his fourth home run in nine games (after hitting just one in the previous 35 games).—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
30 May 2026
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The story of America’s lopsided home prices has often been pinned on the wealthy remote workers who squeezed home supply in the pandemic’s early days.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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That class was, at the time, the highest rated in the history of 247Sports and boasted a ludicrous eight five-star signees.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2026
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The one reliable starter the Giants had boasted this season — Landen Roupp — allowed eight earned runs on Monday.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
2 June 2026
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Attendee’s workday blues than completely vanished thanks to Billboard‘s Hip-Hop Rookie of the Year GELO, who swaggered about the stage and ignited the party with the littest cuts off his debut album, League of My Own.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Bulled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bulled. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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