how to pronounce bullying

/ˈbʊliːɪŋ/

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bullying is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of bullying in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… prime progenitors of bullying daxing and …”

meanings of bullying

noun:

An act of intimidating a person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.
Persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person.

verb:

Present participle of bully.

bullying frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word bullying occurs in english on average 13 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics bullying can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that bullying can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;