Thesaurus results for PUSHED

pushed

verb

past tense of push

as in shoved

to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one I had to push my damaged bike all the way home

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as in squeezed

to force one's way we had to push our way through a crowd that was mostly headed in the opposite direction

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Recent Examples of pushed Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his royal title in October 2025 and pushed out of his vast home at Royal Lodge after reports of his association with Epstein hit a fever pitch. —

Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026 YouTube pushed back on addiction claims YouTube wasn’t originally part of the lawsuit; Kaley and her mother decided to add it after learning about the platform’s addictive qualities, Lanier said. —

Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026 Ailsa Craig’s rocks formed around 60 million years ago when magma pushed into a relatively shallow layer of the Earth’s crust during the rifting that formed the Atlantic Ocean. —

Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2026 After decades of rumors, the trailblazing rapper came out in March 2020, explaining that Dupart pushed her to embrace her true self. —

Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2026 The debut of the Alamo Visitor Center and Museum — the centerpiece of a major public-private makeover of the iconic site — has been pushed back to spring 2028 from late 2027. —

Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Feb. 2026 Infamously, a February 2024 story published by Bloomberg suggested that Panera Bread restaurants, owned by Newsom donor and former high school classmate Greg Flynn, would be exempt from a fast-food minimum-wage increase due to provisions pushed by the governor. —

Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 4 Feb. 2026 Policies in New Zealand, by contrast, pushed carbon prices way down after the government moved to de-link its system from international climate commitments, reducing confidence that carbon permits there would become scarcer over time. —

Natasha Bracken, semafor.com, 3 Feb. 2026 Our reporting reveals that members and related officials have encouraged protesters to impede law enforcement; pushed civilians toward legally and physically risky confrontations; and helped mobilize a counterprotest that turned violent. —

Christina Buttons, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2026

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Duren shoved Diabate’s face, and despite people on both sides trying to alleviate the tension, the usually mild-mannered Diabate kept trying to find Duren again.

— Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 10 Feb. 2026
Finally, they’re shoved out the door in Texas, no coat, no ID, no money, no phone, and have to try to make their way home.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026