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Recent Examples of push around
Waitstaff push around noisy carts filled with steaming silver tins brimming with dim sum treats: delicate sui mai, fluffy ham pao, and elegantly scalloped hakao.
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Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for push around
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Damaging Iran’s nuclear facilities, decapitating its leadership structure, and repeatedly disrupting its enrichment efforts forces Tehran into a permanent state of caution.—
David A. Deptula,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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The murder thrusts Zhan-Zhou into the spotlight and the court of public opinion, forcing her towards a fate intertwined with that of her own country.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
23 June 2025
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In over 40 instances of strategic bombing from World War I to the first Gulf War in 1991, such barrages, whether concentrated and heavy or light and dispersed, never compelled civilians to take to the streets in any meaningful numbers to oppose their governments.—
Robert A. Pape,
Foreign Affairs,
17 June 2025
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In a time of scorching divisions, interviewees felt compelled by the call to act with collective spirit.—
Talia Milgrom-Elcott,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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Though Iran had agreed to convert it to produce only low-grade plutonium, that process was never completed in what Israel said was a tactic to pressure the West.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
20 June 2025
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Trump Still Faces Consequences For 2020 Election Fraud Claims Trump was indicted twice for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results, including by allegedly pressuring state officials and lawmakers to reject the results based on his fraud allegations.—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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In some cases, governments even coerce companies into accepting artificially low prices by threatening to violate their patents and allow other manufacturers to produce copycat drugs.—
Rosa Mendoza,
Boston Herald,
16 June 2025
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Geragos has tried to portray Jane as a willing participant in encounters with male escorts and entertainers while Diddy watched, to undermine prosecution claims that she was coerced and trafficked.—
Victoria Bekiempis,
Vulture,
12 June 2025
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The threat underscores the collapse of diplomatic efforts to constrain Iran’s program.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
19 June 2025
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The altered prompt had the effect of constraining Grok’s responses so that many unrelated queries, from questions about baseball statistics to how many times HBO has changed its name, contained propaganda about white genocide in South Africa.—
James Foulds,
The Conversation,
18 June 2025
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In January, Native Americans alleged that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were harassing tribal members.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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But with that brief wave of hope came new footage on Twitter every night of the NYPD acting like bad cops out of a Harvey Keitel flick: cops harassing peaceful crowds, cops kettling activists, cops literally driving a car into a crowd of protestors.—
Maris Kreizman,
Rolling Stone,
24 June 2025
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In June 1978, between appearances at the Windmill Dinner Theater in Scottsdale, Ariz., Crane was bludgeoned to death.—
Meredith Wilshere,
People.com,
8 June 2025
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Cardoso bludgeoned the Wings for the Chicago Sky’s first 10 points of the 97-92 win.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
31 May 2025
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to oblige the governor’s request.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
25 June 2025
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But when Cadence refuses to oblige Harris, the patriarch remains tight-lipped to maintain the family’s shiny reputation, in true Sinclair fashion.—
Alyssa Davis,
People.com,
19 June 2025
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“Push around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/push%20around. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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