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Recent Examples of push around
That first generation lasted until 2006, with 4,038 examples built, one of which this reporter had the opportunity to push around Manhattan.
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Josh Max, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
On a Wednesday morning in Oceanside during the camp’s second session, the furniture in Municipal’s conference room had been pushed around.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
But the fight and spirit Miami’s backups showed on Saturday - days after getting pushed around by the Lions for two practices - shows that McDaniel’s team is a work in progress.
—Omar Kelly
august 16, Miami Herald, 16 Aug. 2025
The other school of thought is that Martin — at 5-foot-11, 220 pounds — is going to be pushed around and that his speed is the only thing that puts him on the field.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2025
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Josh Max, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
On a Wednesday morning in Oceanside during the camp’s second session, the furniture in Municipal’s conference room had been pushed around.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
But the fight and spirit Miami’s backups showed on Saturday - days after getting pushed around by the Lions for two practices - shows that McDaniel’s team is a work in progress.
—Omar Kelly
august 16, Miami Herald, 16 Aug. 2025
The other school of thought is that Martin — at 5-foot-11, 220 pounds — is going to be pushed around and that his speed is the only thing that puts him on the field.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for push around
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The Kuomintang, or KMT, also known as the Nationalist Party of China, is the party formerly led by Chiang Kai-shek that ruled the entirety of the Republic of China before Mao Zedong’s communist military forced it to flee to Taiwan.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
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The show also featured a number of first-time nominees and first-time winners like Tramell Tillman, Jeff Hiller, Hannah Einbinder, and Owen Cooper, all of whom were been forced to amend their moment in the spotlight to adhere to the joke.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
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Yet these productions are increasingly designed around an ethos of visual-over-depth that compels us to immediately document and post each scene.—
David Hochman,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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One way lawsuits can generate this pressure is through the discovery process, which compels companies to turn over internal documents, and could shed insight into what executives knew about safety risks or marketing harms.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
14 Sep. 2025
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Some of my friends were pressured to send inappropriate pictures, contacted by strangers, and exposed to content way beyond our age.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
12 Sep. 2025
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Their ability to swing elections brings some efficiency to proxy battles, corralling the efforts of corporate management and the hedge funds trying to pressure them, and winning over the Big Three is usually enough for either side to secure victory.—
Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Investigators allege that Hernandez coerced at least five minors into participating in the production of child pornography on at least seven occasions, consistent with the seven charges.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
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Never use someone’s dream to coerce them into a relationship.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
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The result is a labor supply shock that economists say is constraining hiring, piling on pressure even as demand softens simultaneously.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
17 Sep. 2025
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Unlike Goldsmith and Horner, Russo was not constrained by a two-hour runtime, but free to let his music breathe and evolve across multiple episodes.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Abusers frequently assert financial control by interfering with their partners’ ability to work, including stalking or harassing at their worksite.—
Michelle Travis,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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And in Garcia’s long interception return, Benitez was harassed by the defense, flushed out of the pocket and forced to throw off balance.—
John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
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O’Steen bludgeoned Marissa Grimes, dug a shallow grave for her under his house in west Fort Worth and for 10 days lived above where police later sawed open the floor to expose Grimes’ decomposing 135-pound body, prosecutors have argued that the evidence shows.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Sep. 2025
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Story editing is a form of self-talk that preempts your under-estimator from seizing control with its bludgeoning feedback.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Past performance, as investment professionals are obliged to warn, is no guide to the future.—
David Prosser,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Yes, the city knows its way around a good crabcake—something every visitor is obliged to try—but the scenery goes beyond the plate.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Push around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/push%20around. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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