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bully

[bool-ee] / ˈbʊl i /




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Alison Thornton, who plays chief bully Chris Hargensen, says social media "is kind of a villain in the show".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

She spoke negatively of that experience and called her co-star a bully in her memoir, released earlier this year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The bond market has always been able to bully small countries that depend on external financing.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

The post of chair of NATO’s military committee, known as CMC, is more of a high-level intermediary with a bully pulpit than battle commander and is held by a non-U.S. figure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Ares, really a bully at heart and unable to bear what he brought upon unnumbered multitudes of men, fled up to Zeus in Olympus and complained bitterly of Athena’s violence.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

In stark contrast, Chris Sutton branded his former side as "flat-track bullies".

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

I ask her if these environments are full of bullies.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Be bullies on the field. Be dominant. Take play by play. Just play hard. That’s who we are.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

“It is infectious to play a character who sees the best in people and isn’t mad at the world for all its foibles and bullies and shadows,” Sudeikis recently told the Hollywood Reporter.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

I really don’t know why bullies have such a good sense of humor.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Musk’s forthright, crusty dad Errol sounds almost proud that something was bullied out of his son, but the movie avoids filling out that traumatic childhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

An ultra-online 20-something, she was a front row witness to Gamergate, yet somehow she’s shocked to overhear about middle-school girls getting bullied on Instagram.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

At a separate press conference on Wednesday, Portadown District Master Nigel Dawson said the lodge would "not be bullied or threatened by any residents' group who step outside the law".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Stevenson said that since her mistake she had been ridiculed and bullied online.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Ginny Weasley, who had been looking pale, was bullied into taking some by Percy.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

They will also be held directly responsible for protecting under-18s from pornography, online bullying, content that glorifies crime, and content that encourages eating disorders.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Concerns over bullying and student safety are rising.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

"It's the story of an outsider, and bullying has not gone away in 50 years," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Additional research highlighted systemic barriers experienced by women coaches, including bullying, harassment and unequal opportunities.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

At that moment, it wasn’t even Lettie’s bullying that was bothering me, not on its own.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce


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