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.
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Bernie Wilson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Oct. 2025
Federal officers fired rubber bulled and used tear gas.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bulled
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With the tattoo tables pushed to the side, the room becomes a coliseum for adults going to war with Beyblades, a children’s toy made popular a quarter of a century ago.
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During Monday’s meeting trustees forcefully pushed back on the suggestion that there were governance improprieties.
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In addition to being a great student, Maddie is a skilled softball player, which her mom Jamie Lynn bragged about in May 2022.
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But their website bragged about Mother’s Day brunch.
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The performance uptick that Motorola squeezed from the 2026 Razr+ is minor at best, with results showing no significant year-over-year gains.
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There was Paris squeezed between meetings on a fleeting work trip.
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Clayton-Thomas joined the group, which boasted a brass section and, like the Bossmen, drew inspiration from jazz.
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Whereas in the past, new cameras boasted better screens, memory or capabilities, the new pitch is intelligence.
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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.
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“Bulled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bulled. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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