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Recent Examples of push around
That first generation lasted until 2006, with 4,038 examples built, one of which this reporter had the opportunity to push around Manhattan.
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Josh Max, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
On a Wednesday morning in Oceanside during the camp’s second session, the furniture in Municipal’s conference room had been pushed around.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
But the fight and spirit Miami’s backups showed on Saturday - days after getting pushed around by the Lions for two practices - shows that McDaniel’s team is a work in progress.
—Omar Kelly
august 16, Miami Herald, 16 Aug. 2025
The other school of thought is that Martin — at 5-foot-11, 220 pounds — is going to be pushed around and that his speed is the only thing that puts him on the field.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2025
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Josh Max, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
On a Wednesday morning in Oceanside during the camp’s second session, the furniture in Municipal’s conference room had been pushed around.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
But the fight and spirit Miami’s backups showed on Saturday - days after getting pushed around by the Lions for two practices - shows that McDaniel’s team is a work in progress.
—Omar Kelly
august 16, Miami Herald, 16 Aug. 2025
The other school of thought is that Martin — at 5-foot-11, 220 pounds — is going to be pushed around and that his speed is the only thing that puts him on the field.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for push around
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The Kuomintang, or KMT, also known as the Nationalist Party of China, is the party formerly led by Chiang Kai-shek that ruled the entirety of the Republic of China before Mao Zedong’s communist military forced it to flee to Taiwan.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
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The show also featured a number of first-time nominees and first-time winners like Tramell Tillman, Jeff Hiller, Hannah Einbinder, and Owen Cooper, all of whom were been forced to amend their moment in the spotlight to adhere to the joke.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
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Yet these productions are increasingly designed around an ethos of visual-over-depth that compels us to immediately document and post each scene.—
David Hochman,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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One way lawsuits can generate this pressure is through the discovery process, which compels companies to turn over internal documents, and could shed insight into what executives knew about safety risks or marketing harms.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
14 Sep. 2025
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Some of my friends were pressured to send inappropriate pictures, contacted by strangers, and exposed to content way beyond our age.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
12 Sep. 2025
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Their ability to swing elections brings some efficiency to proxy battles, corralling the efforts of corporate management and the hedge funds trying to pressure them, and winning over the Big Three is usually enough for either side to secure victory.—
Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Investigators allege that Hernandez coerced at least five minors into participating in the production of child pornography on at least seven occasions, consistent with the seven charges.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
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Never use someone’s dream to coerce them into a relationship.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
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Beijing’s relationship with Islamabad has long served as a low-cost, low-risk proxy strategy to constrain India, from nuclear enablement in the 1980s to the steady upgrading of Pakistani military capabilities.—
Shyam Saran,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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Saudi Arabia’s art scene, long constrained by restrictions and dismissed as a hobby, is now drawing institutional support as the kingdom looks to project its culture globally.—
Manal Albarakati,
semafor.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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In a statement to PEOPLE, Richards’ divorce attorney Brett Berman denied the allegations and accused Phypers of abusing and harassing the actress.—
Stephanie Wenger,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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Some would argue that there are plenty of other reasons to think that harassing an animal is wrong.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
7 Sep. 2025
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O’Steen bludgeoned Marissa Grimes, dug a shallow grave for her under his house in west Fort Worth and for 10 days lived above where police later sawed open the floor to expose Grimes’ decomposing 135-pound body, prosecutors have argued that the evidence shows.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Sep. 2025
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Story editing is a form of self-talk that preempts your under-estimator from seizing control with its bludgeoning feedback.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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The pilot obliges — and then the co-pilot flips off the autopilot function.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
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That means the sheriff and chief probation officer are not obliged to implement its recommendations.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Push around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/push%20around. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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