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Recent Examples of push around
These efforts, along with the push around quality of life, have led to successful partnerships with companies like Shipt, a startup grocery delivery service, and Landing, a facilities management software company that moved from San Francisco in 2024.
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Using a regular controller, players can control a tiny digital ship, firing nanoscale bullets to push around a physical polystyrene ball just a few microns wide.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
That all changed last Saturday when eagle-eyed paparazzi snapped Kournikova at Bal Harbour Shops, being pushed around the tony outdoor mall in a wheelchair.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
Using a regular controller, players can control a tiny digital ship, firing nanoscale bullets to push around a physical polystyrene ball just a few microns wide.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Using a regular controller, players can control a tiny digital ship, firing nanoscale bullets to push around a physical polystyrene ball just a few microns wide.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
That all changed last Saturday when eagle-eyed paparazzi snapped Kournikova at Bal Harbour Shops, being pushed around the tony outdoor mall in a wheelchair.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
Using a regular controller, players can control a tiny digital ship, firing nanoscale bullets to push around a physical polystyrene ball just a few microns wide.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for push around
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Whether that’s a trial site, a community center or the patient’s workplace, this model removes friction from both ends: Participants aren’t forced to travel, and sponsors don’t have to wait for overwhelmed sites to come online.—
Sonali Bloom,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Despite Anna’s meticulous preparations, her intent to force confessions from the passengers and deliver them directly to authorities is immediately derailed when just hours into the trip one of her guests is murdered.—
Lexy Perez,
HollywoodReporter,
10 June 2025
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In a conversation with Harvard Business School, Sam Altman observes that the rise of AI will compel us to rethink jobs and society.—
Arafat Kabir,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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So when California sets new emission standards – and other states follow – the auto industry is compelled to adopt them.—
Francine Kiefer,
Christian Science Monitor,
2 June 2025
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The Trump administration has cut federal research grants for several universities, pressuring them to comply with his agenda.—
Cheyanne Mumphrey,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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The implication is that societal expectations may be pressuring people into arrangements that aren't actually serving their well-being.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
7 June 2025
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Defense attorneys for the juvenile defendants, Matthew Niemiec and Mark Grier, said the suspects were coerced into the alleged crime.—
Audrey Conklin,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2025
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Scammers often ask for money or coerce their victims into performing harmful acts.—
Nicole Valdes,
CBS News,
31 May 2025
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But nothing in it would significantly constrain stories set in the kids’ present-day lives.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
5 June 2025
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Elliot Grainge, now 31, certainly tips the scale towards a younger, more nimble record executive less constrained by the old-boys-club way of doing things.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2025
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That approach has come under new scrutiny after Thomas, one of the league’s biggest stars, was harassed by a bettor at a Philadelphia race earlier this month.—
Eric Jackson,
Sportico.com,
12 June 2025
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This certainly isn't the first time a man has made news for allegedly stalking or harassing the megastar.—
Mirna Alsharif,
NBC news,
10 June 2025
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While the parallels drawn (sometimes by the artist himself) between him and 2Pac are usually semiotic, here Wayne channels what is perhaps Pac’s signature skill: his capacity to bludgeon his way through a heavy beat while retaining the dynamism and bend in his voice.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
6 June 2025
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Kate would have the family’s victims sit with their backs to a canvas curtain, according to the Reflector, while another family member hid and would bludgeon the victim over the head with a hammer.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
1 June 2025
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The Giants obliged, sending their now-former quarterback into free agency for the first time in his career.—
Justin Grasso,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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On the one hand, he felt legally obliged to obey Dred Scott—the court ruling that said Blacks were not citizens—and worried about public reaction.—
Zaakir Tameez
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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