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Recent Examples of jostle
Well out of place, an aggressive Rakell jostled the puck free and poked in an empty-netter for the 2-0 lead for Pittsburgh's first multigoal lead of the series.
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Cbs News Philadelphia Staff, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
Makris and his team theorized that rain sounds underwater might produce large enough vibrations to jostle the statoliths and possibly spur germination in rice seeds.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
Four Democrats and one Republican are jostling to become one of the top two candidates to emerge from the June 2 primary.
—Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
Running the Boston Marathon is tough enough without having to jostle your way from Hopkinton to Copley Square.
—ABC News, 19 Apr. 2026
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Cbs News Philadelphia Staff, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
Makris and his team theorized that rain sounds underwater might produce large enough vibrations to jostle the statoliths and possibly spur germination in rice seeds.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
Four Democrats and one Republican are jostling to become one of the top two candidates to emerge from the June 2 primary.
—Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
Running the Boston Marathon is tough enough without having to jostle your way from Hopkinton to Copley Square.
—ABC News, 19 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jostle
Verb
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State troopers pulled him out of his seat and pushed him down the gallery.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
8 May 2026
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Potter pushed away people over and over again, and The Dark Wizard uses archival footage, various interviews, and Potter’s journals to try to understand why.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 May 2026
Verb
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It was triggered, in his telling, by the record oil price spike of June 2008, which forced ordinary households to absorb more than $2,000 in additional energy costs on top of adjustable-rate mortgage resets that were already squeezing them.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
9 May 2026
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Gas prices, housing costs and groceries are squeezing people who are working hard yet still falling behind.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 May 2026
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“Jostle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jostle. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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