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
  • Mainly, this conference is just being dominated by longtime football juggernauts Ohio State, Oregon and … Indiana.
    Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Kentucky Country Day’s juggernaut of an offense met its match Friday night.
    Rich Barak, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Steamroller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamroller. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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