How to Use pushback in a Sentence
pushback
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The plan could face some pushback.
—Connor Greene, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
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Still, pushback has piled up along the way.
—ABC News, 12 June 2026
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Still, pushback has piled up along the way.
—Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2026
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And there’s a great deal of pushback to that.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 9 May 2026
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But there’s been strong pushback.
—Anna Clark, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2025
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Not all the pushback comes from Democrats.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2025
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And then that was also part of the part of the pushback on it.
—Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022
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How did you get drawn into the pushback against these fish farms?
—Allison Hussey, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2023
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Who are the players, and how fast is this pushback on him?
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
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That pushback did not dim Wiener’s high hopes for the new law.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 10 Oct. 2025
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There were concerns about that, and there was pushback about that.
—Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2022
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And frankly, there was great pushback from allies around the world.
—WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023
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The question is, what kind of pushback?
—Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
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And for as much pushback as there is, there are some big leaps forward.
—Steve Appleford, SPIN, 1 June 2026
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The same pushback will be required.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026
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Hearing pushback on your big plans?
—Usa Today, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2026
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Kerr got pushback and chose retreat.
—Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
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Of course, there was initial pushback.
—Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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There’s just been too little pushback.
—Thomas Drance, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
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The pushback has never stopped, though.
—ABC News, 3 June 2026
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The first bird was caught in time, and the plane was set to make an on-time pushback from the gate.
—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 28 May 2025
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Getting pushback from a friend?
—Usa Today, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
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Which is why their return to the spotlight has been met with some pushback.
—Héloïse Salessy, Glamour, 21 Feb. 2026
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There’s a lot of good news embedded in this pushback.
—William Arruda, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
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Amid fierce public pushback, some of the sites have now been restored.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
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The project had already received pushback from the city due to its height and size.
—Wells Dusenbury, Sun Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2022
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The woman behind her seemed shocked by the pushback.
—Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
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Well, first of all, there is a global pushback on women’s rights.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 17 June 2026
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At a certain point, there's going to be a pushback.
—ABC News, 24 May 2026
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Many parishioners offered pushback, and on a range of fronts.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
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