thrust on/upon
phrasal verb
thrust on/upon; thrusting on/upon; thrusts on/upon
: to force (someone) to have or accept (something)
Fame was thrust upon her.
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While Vulcan only used two BE-4s, the seven on New Glenn produce 3.85 million pounds of thrust on liftoff, which makes the rocket more than twice as powerful than SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and more powerful than ULA’s Atlas V rocket.
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2025
The effects of this lunation will be felt for about a full week, so expect situations to be thrust upon you several days before and after its peak.
—Kyle Thomas, People.com, 6 July 2025
Lala feels unnecessarily thrust upon us like a nepo baby who is about to become an executive at the company without having to do anything.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 11 June 2025
Its main thrust on Medicaid is to adopt good-government measures that save money, rather than try again to repeal the Obamacare Medicaid expansion.
—The Editors, National Review, 5 June 2025
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2025
The effects of this lunation will be felt for about a full week, so expect situations to be thrust upon you several days before and after its peak.
—Kyle Thomas, People.com, 6 July 2025
Lala feels unnecessarily thrust upon us like a nepo baby who is about to become an executive at the company without having to do anything.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 11 June 2025
Its main thrust on Medicaid is to adopt good-government measures that save money, rather than try again to repeal the Obamacare Medicaid expansion.
—The Editors, National Review, 5 June 2025
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“Thrust on/upon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thrust%20on%2Fupon. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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