steamroller

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Recent Examples of steamroller Indeed, the steamroller gag reveals one of the movie's big twists! Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 16 June 2025 Ludwig takes a dart to the neck, falls several stories to the concrete, gets run over by a bus, then flattened by a steamroller and finally trampled by the USC marching band. Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025 The tariff steamroller ran over the stocks of some good companies in the first quarter and early April. John Dorfman, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025 The growing Schumer scorn underlines the party's urgent divide over how to handle President Trump's (at times legally dubious) executive steamroller. Avery Lotz, Axios, 23 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for steamroller
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juggernaut
Noun
  • The song would become one of the biggest hits of 2025, topping the Hot 100 for 10 non-consecutive weeks while turning Warren himself into a streaming juggernaut.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Canada was gripped by the World Series last month and early in November as the Blue Jays, the country’s only MLB team, came agonizingly close to upsetting the Dodgers juggernaut.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025

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“Steamroller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamroller. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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