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verb (1)

past tense of bull
as in pushed
to force one's way the beleaguered governor bulled through the crowd of reporters without answering a single question

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verb (2)

past tense of bull, slang
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
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
  1. pushed
  2. bragged
  3. squeezed
  4. boasted
  5. swaggered
Verb
  • Lawmakers pushed back when Black sought to distance himself from Epstein, including by asking about a message Black wrote for a book that Maxwell, Epstein's longtime associate, created for Epstein's 50th birthday.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 17 July 2026
  • Instead, global economic uncertainty — including the war in Iran — have pushed mortgage rates passed 6%.
    — Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of pushed
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  • Jason bragged about using emotional manipulation over his dead mother to trick Angela.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026
  • Plenty of others bragged about how their normally less-than-healthy eating habits would protect them from the diarrheal scourge.
    — Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2026
Definition of bragged
Verb
  • Tournament football isn’t generally conducive to pressing, with so many matches squeezed into such a short window, and without the cohesion that comes from club sides training together for months.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • My problem is the kart path along the road has 3 or so feet of grass between it and the road, then suddenly the grass narrows and is eventually gone before going over the bridge and everything is squeezed together.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of squeezed
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  • The platform had hit ten million users just two weeks after an invitation-only launch, Larry boasted.
    — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
  • Musk has boasted SpaceX’s Starship for years as the firm aspires to ferry cargo and humans to the moon and Mars, and at about 400 feet tall, the rocket is considered the largest ever.
    — Ty Roush, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of boasted
Verb
  • 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
Definition of swaggered

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