Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for butting
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This boundary-breaking dance drama follows Baby (Jennifer Grey) and Johnny (Patrick Swayze) in a wrong-side-of-the-tracks romantic entanglement that all starts with a rousing night of bumping and grinding.—
Madeleine Janz,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025 -
Only 11% of drivers in the study admitted to violent road rage behaviors in the last year, such as bumping other cars on purpose or confronting other drivers.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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Keeping his foot on the gas also means pushing ahead with reforms.—
Monroe Trombly,
Louisville Courier Journal,
2 Oct. 2025
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Undocumented immigrants are not legally eligible for the health subsidies Democrats are pushing for in the negotiations.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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As the Mariners spun in a dance circle with kicking legs, Guerrero once again draped arms over the dugout railing and buried his head into his biceps.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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In Week 1, kicking woes contributed to a 23-20 loss.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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Newman also noted that the footage shows the woman hitting Crow’s hat off his head and shoving him.—
David Goodhue
October 3,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
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Video captured by photographer Stephanie Keith showed another agent shoving Fedorova, who fell backward near where Elibol had collapsed.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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The first meetup drew dozens of participants poking at pudding cups together.—
Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
3 Oct. 2025
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The underground pop of the 2010s used to get so excited about being online, using shrinky-dink artifice to delight in poking fun at a culture that could feel shallow and strange but also organic and endlessly renewable.—
Anna Gaca,
Pitchfork,
1 Oct. 2025
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Fans have speculated that Ice and Cardi have been jabbing at one another.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
24 Sep. 2025
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Even Kendall Vertes, who also starred on Dance Moms, posted a TikTok video playfully jabbing at the fact that Siwa was in anything but her casual outfits.—
Michelle Lee,
PEOPLE,
18 Sep. 2025
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African tech entrepreneurs are jostling to offer digital financial services to the millions of Africans who live outside the continent and frequently transfer money back home.—
Alexander Onukwue,
semafor.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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As Ali stopped to address the crowd and the cameras, a disturbance broke out between the jostling spectators and the soldiers.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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In some cases, like my request for headache tips, bots end their messages with prodding follow-up questions.—
Lila Shroff,
The Atlantic,
22 Sep. 2025
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Wissa was an important signing, someone to take the pressure off Woltemade while simultaneously prodding him.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Butting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butting. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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