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Hysteria about pedophiles, driven by conspiracy theories, has trampled truth.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2023

Here are some examples of ways she has trampled my boundary in the past seven days alone.

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2022

There are perhaps no musicians whom history has trampled over so forcefully as electronic producers, who are disproportionately burdened by whipsaw shifts in popular taste.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019

Greenwald, author of books in which he argues the government has trampled on personal rights, wrote the original stories exposing the extent of the government's data collection.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2013

The blood of its sons has but brightened its sheen; What though the tyrant has trampled it down, Are its folds not emblazoned with deeds of renown?

From Poems: Patriotic, Religious by Ryan, Abram Joseph