Thesaurus results for PUSHED

pushed

verb

past tense of push

as in shoved

to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one I had to push my damaged bike all the way home

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as in squeezed

to force one's way we had to push our way through a crowd that was mostly headed in the opposite direction

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Recent Examples of pushed One of the activities that received the most enjoyment from viewers was when the girls pushed themselves on the swing. —

Literary Hub, 20 May 2026 Defense attorney Curtis Rogers pushed back against that claim, arguing in his opening statement that other school staffers, including Zwerner, could have acted. —

Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 19 May 2026 Home prices pushed buyers farther from the center of the valley. —

Mark Dee may 19, Idaho Statesman, 19 May 2026 The co-founders have pushed over the years into more defense work, which has benefited the company amid the Pentagon’s AI warfare strategy and a massive budget request this year to modernize the military. —

Rebecca Fannin, CNBC, 19 May 2026 The show was merciless with its satirical barbs against top government officials and current events, just as its parent company Paramount Skydance has pushed to acquire Warner Bros Discovery. —

Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 19 May 2026 There was a golden shrine pushed to the corner of the room to make way for a projector and a comically large sound system. —

Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 19 May 2026 The differences between racial attitudes in America and those in Britain both pushed and pulled him out of his home country, but America needed that gift less than Britain did. —

Brian Seibert, New Yorker, 13 May 2026 Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool did it by having Jordan Henderson drop from the right side of midfield to cover the space when Alexander-Arnold pushed up from full-back. —

The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 13 May 2026

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The enforcer handcuffed me and shoved me into the same car, again forcing my head between my knees.

— Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
Turner snaked through the gauntlet, as his teammates playfully slapped and shoved him around.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026