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butting

verb

present participle of butt
as in bumping

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for butting
  1. bumping
  2. pushing
  3. kicking
  4. shoving
  5. poking
  6. jabbing
  7. jostling
  8. prodding
Verb
  • Of course, Preece’s move into the field meant bumping out another driver.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Bonhams is bumping its buyer’s premium up to 30 percent from 28 percent for bids of £25,000 ($33,700) or less.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of bumping
Verb
  • The president was pushing back against calls by tech leaders such as Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and SpaceXAI's Elon Musk to have greater government oversight of AI.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
  • With yields now notching over 5%, longer-term interest rates across the economy are increasing, pushing up borrowing costs on the national debt as a result.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of pushing
Verb
  • For a player with an English father and Mexican mother, raised in Idaho and now kicking for Kansas, there is plenty wrapped up in that flag.
    — Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Scanlan is a junior midfielder on the soccer team and is kicking for the Caravan’s four-time defending state champion football team.
    — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of kicking
Verb
  • Eventually, Reacher bests Amisha by shoving her out of a window to fall to the street below.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Last month, Good Good Golf lost its partnership with Callaway and its title sponsorship of a PGA Tour event in the fallout over a video for a new driver that showed a man shoving to the ground a woman who was trying to touch the golf club.
    — Jim Vertuno, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of shoving
Verb
  • Traditionally, there’s this rendering of hell as a dark cave with fire, and there’s the devil with a pitchfork poking everybody with it.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
  • With the help of Nollet, Anderson’s hair was blown and teased away from her forehead, with tinges of pink poking through.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of poking
Verb
  • When handcuffed by investigators, Thakor denied jabbing his wife with a knife.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Years ago, after Jake died, my instinct as a medical student was anger — clenching my teeth and jabbing a pen into my notepad, making a line of inky holes along the margin.
    — Caroline Cherston, STAT, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of jabbing
Verb
  • More than 200 walruses were hauled out on the beach, grunting and groaning, wriggling and jostling for position.
    — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Matt Fitzpatrick and Cameron Young are jostling for second place, while movement is possible throughout the top 10.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of jostling
Verb
  • The defense kept prodding James to tell more about the Compton gang war, the hatred between both sides, what really happened on that night in Las Vegas.
    — Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026
  • But the forces prodding Shin to boost rates are increasingly affecting Fed policy decisions.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of prodding
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“Butting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butting. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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