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was steamrolled
verb
To flatten, as if with a steamroller
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"I was steamrolled today by him.
Like those before her, she was steamrolled by Mr. Saxton.
A veritable tossup compared with UConn and Louisville, which was steamrolled by the Huskies, 75-36, last month in the Big East tournament.
But the Walkman brand couldn't possibly have had a better head start in the digital music world, and it was steamrolled flat by Sony's short-sightedness and draconian hardware/software limitations.
The inconvenient truth was that Russia's once important "queer colony," an underground gulag in its own terms, was steamrolled under a strictly puritanical Soviet regime.
Roy recounted a time "years and years ago" when her vision was steamrolled by a stylist and casting director who told her casting a racially diverse show would be "impossible".
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At the time, Trump was steamrolling through the Republican primaries while bashing Mexicans, Muslims and even the pope.
We won't be steamrolled.
"It's being steamrolled by the P.S.C".
"I am being steamrolled," he said.
Poole's teams were steamrolled by the man who became his father-in-law.
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