PUSH AROUND Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

push around

verb

Definition of push around

as in to force

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Recent Examples of push around The Paparazzo sits in Gucci’s current push around familiar house codes, with the GG canvas, Horsebit and Web all visible from the court. — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 8 May 2026 Marchenko seems like a 30-goal lock, but he got pushed around when games intensified. — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 4 May 2026 Trump, who appointed three of the court’s six conservative justices, complained that the justices appointed by Republican presidents are letting themselves be pushed around by Democrats. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026 So far, that information isn’t being provided (the first lady was insistent on a theatrical push around the globe). — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 1 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for push around

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Verb

The exact timetable for his recovery isn’t known; the injury will force him out of at least a portion of the regular season.

— Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2026
While Homer followed warriors sailing home from Troy, the playwright Euripides — writing some three centuries later — turned to the city’s ruins and its women, forced into exile and enslavement.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of force

Verb

As members of the House minority, the committee’s inquiries can’t compel more detailed responses from the administration.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2026
DeepSeek’s January 2025 announcement compelled many observers to acknowledge a trajectory that Beijing had been articulating through industrial policies, successive Five-Year Plans, and national technology strategies for more than a decade.

— Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of compel

Verb

That way, no one feels pressured or rushed, and therefore not as excited for the meeting.

— Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 3 Aug. 2026
The Republicans in Washington are pressuring the Department of Justice to charge the former special counsel Jack Smith with perjury.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of pressure

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Group members will often blackmail victims by threatening to make swatting calls at their home address and have also been known to coerce minors into placing swatting calls themselves.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2026
Jawad Boulos, who was Sarsour's lawyer when he was charged in Israel decades ago, testified that Sarsour was tortured in Israeli custody and coerced into making confessions.

— CBS News, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of coerce

Verb

There are others, however, who disagree – arguing that the harms caused by gun deaths, drug abuse and overdose, and the spread of preventable disease require regulation that constrains or prohibits completely people’s freedom to choose.

— Jen Cole Wright, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026
But with refining capacity now constrained, even plentiful crude supplies cannot be quickly processed into gasoline and diesel.

— , CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of constrain

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Although China’s maritime militia fleet regularly harasses other countries’ small and vulnerable fishing boats, the container ships and bulk carriers responsible for Taiwan’s commerce dwarf any Chinese militia vessel.

— Eugene Gholz, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2026
The order would limit Miller’s ability to contact her attorneys, with Moreno saying in the filing that her ex-husband harassed, grabbed and insulted them.

— Adam England, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of harass

Verb

Back inside the ring, Brock Lesnar defended himself with a steel step, bludgeoning Oba Femi three times.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
By bludgeoning the Texas Rangers, 11-2, the Astros secured the regular-season series over their intrastate rival and own the tiebreaker.

— Chandler Rome, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026

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