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Recent Examples of push around
These efforts, along with the push around quality of life, have led to successful partnerships with companies like Shipt, a startup grocery delivery service, and Landing, a facilities management software company that moved from San Francisco in 2024.
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Using a regular controller, players can control a tiny digital ship, firing nanoscale bullets to push around a physical polystyrene ball just a few microns wide.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
That all changed last Saturday when eagle-eyed paparazzi snapped Kournikova at Bal Harbour Shops, being pushed around the tony outdoor mall in a wheelchair.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
Using a regular controller, players can control a tiny digital ship, firing nanoscale bullets to push around a physical polystyrene ball just a few microns wide.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Using a regular controller, players can control a tiny digital ship, firing nanoscale bullets to push around a physical polystyrene ball just a few microns wide.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
That all changed last Saturday when eagle-eyed paparazzi snapped Kournikova at Bal Harbour Shops, being pushed around the tony outdoor mall in a wheelchair.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
Using a regular controller, players can control a tiny digital ship, firing nanoscale bullets to push around a physical polystyrene ball just a few microns wide.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for push around
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The prospect of a New York team with an identity forged from refusing to yield under pressure forcing an anxiety-inducing Game 7 at Madison Square Garden looms large.—
Bobby Krivitsky,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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My biggest soccer loves will forever be Club América and Liga MX, but Vela forced me to make some room in my heart for the black and gold.—
Fidel Martinez,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2025
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In a conversation with Harvard Business School, Sam Altman observes that the rise of AI will compel us to rethink jobs and society.—
Arafat Kabir,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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So when California sets new emission standards – and other states follow – the auto industry is compelled to adopt them.—
Francine Kiefer,
Christian Science Monitor,
2 June 2025
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The Trump administration has cut federal research grants for several universities, pressuring them to comply with his agenda.—
Cheyanne Mumphrey,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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The implication is that societal expectations may be pressuring people into arrangements that aren't actually serving their well-being.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
7 June 2025
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The alleged kidnappers shocked the victim with electric wires, held him upside down from the top of a staircase, cut his leg with a saw and threatened to kill his family in a bid to coerce their Italian hostage to unlock his Bitcoin account, prosecutors said.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
30 May 2025
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Swat is coerced into taking on the role or finally getting legal comeuppances for all of his misdeeds and ends up taking on solving the mystery of a series of disappearances plaguing Echo city.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
29 May 2025
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But nothing in it would significantly constrain stories set in the kids’ present-day lives.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
5 June 2025
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Elliot Grainge, now 31, certainly tips the scale towards a younger, more nimble record executive less constrained by the old-boys-club way of doing things.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2025
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The lawsuit said Robinson harassed and assaulted his former housekeepers who worked at his Chatsworth home between 2006 and 2024.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
31 May 2025
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The message must be clear: Under this administration the IRS will serve the people—not harass them.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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While the parallels drawn (sometimes by the artist himself) between him and 2Pac are usually semiotic, here Wayne channels what is perhaps Pac’s signature skill: his capacity to bludgeon his way through a heavy beat while retaining the dynamism and bend in his voice.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
6 June 2025
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Kate would have the family’s victims sit with their backs to a canvas curtain, according to the Reflector, while another family member hid and would bludgeon the victim over the head with a hammer.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
1 June 2025
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In a debate with his opponent in late May, Trzaskowski spoke out about the upcoming EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, which in theory could oblige Poland to take more refugees from the Middle East and Africa or face penalties.—
Frey Lindsay,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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If the Guardians were looking for the slider this time, Soriano didn’t oblige.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
30 May 2025
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“Push around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/push%20around. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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