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Example sentences for: bucked

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This of course, leaves the reader hungry for more information about why McCain bucked his own party to fight this fight, but none of the news stories obliges.
Cohen has faced down two generals who bucked his authority, but hasn't won (and will never win, the article predicts) the full confidence of high-ranking officers.
Back then, my parents had just bought us a homicidal pony named Yankee, and while I was trying to ride him one day, he bucked me right over a three-rail fence.
True, a Republican, Richard Nixon was president; but few of his policies (the most notable exceptions were Vietnam and Watergate) bucked the nation's liberal mood.
During the '70s and the '80s, Coppola bucked Hollywood by opening his own studio, American Zoetrope.