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Recent Examples of tush Trump, the Eagles, and everyone else who loves the NFL will be waiting patiently to see if the tush push will remain in the game. Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2025 The Green Bay Packers proposed a rule change that would effectively ban the fabled tush push in the NFL, and CEO Mark Murphy expressed optimism that the rule would pass. Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2025 Philadelphia Eagles - Luther Burden III, WR, Missouri With the potential tush push ban, the Eagles may emphasize the passing game more next season, and a great way to do that would be to take a slipping receiver in Burden. Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025 Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts has scored at least 13 rushing touchdowns from the tush push the last three seasons. Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tush
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tush
Noun
  • An older woman, a friend of my mother’s (my mother was also a teacher at the school), walked over and pinched my cheeks, first one and then the other, as an adult might do to an infant.
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Ironically, her swollen face looks plump and round despite her partial buccal fat removal — a procedure that extracts the soft pads of tissue found inside the cheeks to create a slimmer face.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This was all done with a bum wrist, which posed as an inconvenience to him at times.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Tommy, left to prosecute the case against Rusty, has inherited a bum gig.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024
Noun
  • The approximately $65 million project will add up to 1,600 seats and feature 12 field-level suites, 44 loge boxes, 148 ledge seats and 882 club seats.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 31 May 2025
  • In 2016, 23 Republicans won seats carried by Hillary Clinton and 12 Democrats won seats carried by Trump — a total of 35 crossover districts going into 2018.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • Spiny lobster tails make their way north from Marathon’s Key’s Fisheries.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
  • Unfortunately, these ticks co-exist with lone star ticks, and to make the matter worse, both of these ticks feed on white tail deer.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • The south was not fully occupied by Nazi forces until 1942, with the country administered by a rump state, Vichy France.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
  • Atatürk forged the modern Turkish state from the rump of the Ottoman Empire in part by focusing Turkish identity on nation rather than on faith.
    Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2025

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“Tush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tush. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.

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