bulldozing 1 of 2

noun

Definition of bulldozingnext
as in bullying

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bulldozing

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verb

present participle of bulldoze
1
as in pushing
to force one's way bulldozed through the crowd at the arena, urgently trying to find the bathroom

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2
as in intimidating
to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats one of those gatherings at which high-pressure sales reps try to bulldoze naive people into buying time-shares

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bulldozing
  1. bullying
  2. pushing
  3. intimidating
  4. pressure
  5. coercion
  6. threat
  7. menace
  8. violence
Noun
  • Stigma, bullying and politics are contributing to high anxiety and depression rates among LGBTQ+ youth in Minnesota, even after the passage of new state laws meant to strengthen protections and support.
    — Annalise Frank, Axios, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The family of the 15 year-old student, whose name has not been disclosed, said she was punched repeatedly in math class Friday by a football player at the school after days of anti-Muslim bullying.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of bullying
Verb
  • This is not a new development in New Orleans where the Saints have been pushing their costs into the future for years now.
    — Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • With the MacBook Air launching earlier than the iPhone SE and ahead of the next Apple Intelligence update, this points to a press release launch and Apple pushing its consumer laptops further into the background.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of pushing
Verb
  • This new era of AI can feel intimidating for the limited, human life forms that created it.
    — Marc Zao-Sanders, Harvard Business Review, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Only six years older than Crystal, the comedian still found Scorsese intimidating.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of intimidating
Noun
  • There would be fan pressure for the young quarterback to play if Prescott struggled.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2025
  • At a key hearing on March 6, 2023, Ricco says, Messiah broke down from the pressure and began crying.
    — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of pressure
Noun
  • China’s revanchist claims and maritime coercion in the South China Sea are meant to show that big countries can simply grab the global commons.
    — HAL BRANDS, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Three other men charged with coercion — former women’s team coach Jorge Vilda, sports director of the men’s team Albert Luque, and head of marketing Ruben Rivera — were also acquitted.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
Definition of coercion
Noun
  • As the threat of bird flu mounts—the virus is tearing through farms and mutating in ways that increasingly threaten human health—the country’s response has been woefully inadequate.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Keeping it real, UConn just doesn’t lose these games, and played the way everyone is accustomed to seeing the rest of the way to win 82-54, but the Huskies had to respond to a modest challenge, at least, maybe enough to serve as good experience for the real threats and challenges ahead.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2025
Definition of threat
Noun
  • Here's hoping that the little furball can replicate Jonesy's fate and survive the Xenomorph menace too.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Russia ruled out European proposals to send peacekeeping forces to Ukraine and said Thursday that French President Emmanuel Macron had threatened it by suggesting that Moscow was a grave menace to Europe.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of menace
Noun
  • Women belonging to ethnic and religious minorities experienced distinct harms that were compounded by pre-existing discrimination and violence against them - as women and as minorities.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
  • According to Us Weekly, in April 2021, Matt pleaded guilty to one count of domestic battery with corporal injury of a spouse and guilty to one felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud or deceit.
    — Diane J. Cho, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of violence
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