full-court press
noun
1
: a press employed in basketball on both halves of the court
2
: an all-out effort or offensive
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Max Muncy’s glove has stood out Defending against the Milwaukee Brewers is the equivalent of seeing a constant full-court press.
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Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Mazzulla instructed his assistants — a group that included two ex-NBA players and several former high-level college players — not to take it easy on the overmatched media team, applying a full-court press for nearly the entire game and burying their opponents beneath a barrage of 3-pointers.
—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
This week, following a months-long media full-court press, DRAMA debuts atop the Billboard 200 with 200,000 first-week units.
—Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2025
Qualcomm has made an unprecedented full-court press into laptop chips since the original Snapdragon X Elite rollout.
—Wendy Sheehan Donnell, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
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Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Mazzulla instructed his assistants — a group that included two ex-NBA players and several former high-level college players — not to take it easy on the overmatched media team, applying a full-court press for nearly the entire game and burying their opponents beneath a barrage of 3-pointers.
—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
This week, following a months-long media full-court press, DRAMA debuts atop the Billboard 200 with 200,000 first-week units.
—Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2025
Qualcomm has made an unprecedented full-court press into laptop chips since the original Snapdragon X Elite rollout.
—Wendy Sheehan Donnell, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Full-court press.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/full-court%20press. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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