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The Peacocks were not in the field as a team that had steamrollered blue-blood opponents, had assembled a perfect season or had enough cachet to make the selection committee think twice about excluding them.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2022

The Austrians had steamrollered their opponents in an anti-climatic 2010 competition but there was tension in the Russian night air right from the start on Monday.

From Reuters • Feb. 17, 2014

As the season unfolded and their title defence gradually felt the creep of self-doubt, City's big guns struggled to recall how they had steamrollered teams on the road to a first championship in 44 years.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2013

Australia's Herbert Vere Evatt still clamored that the Big Five had "steamrollered" the veto issue.

From Time Magazine Archive