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 The toxic environment eventually pushed Jagetz to her breaking point. — Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026 That is, until the defense brought pressure and star defensive lineman Zach Sieler pushed past the rookie offensive lineman with ease and got to Malik Willis before the shifty quarterback could make a move. — Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2026 Puma has been pinning its hopes on the Speedcat family since at least 2023, when former CEO Arne Freundt first pushed the franchise as the next big thing. — Cathrin Schaer, Footwear News, 31 July 2026 Her pressure campaign eventually pushed the Olympic movement toward broader inclusion for women. — Lindsey Darvin, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 The economic difficulties, energy blackouts, Internet restrictions, and general wartime fatigue have pushed Putin’s approval ratings from around 80 percent at the beginning of the year to 66 percent in mid-July. — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2026 The shopping center is home to 14 businesses — some there for decades — and those owners worry they could be pushed out of the downtown area. — Marissa Perlman, CBS News, 31 July 2026 For decades, that adjustment made computers a textbook case of falling prices, until the artificial intelligence buildout pushed prices up. — Brandy Hadley, Fortune, 31 July 2026 Why the Navy is investing in counter-UUV capability The proliferation of UUVs among potential adversaries has pushed undersea autonomous threat response up the Navies priority list. — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pushed

Verb

Shida shoved him off and hit a Falcon Arrow, but Maya grabbed the bottom rope.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Coming off the awful travel out of Chicago from July 9 into July 10, in which the Red Sox had two plane issues and arrived just a couple hours before first pitch, Gray shoved.

— Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 24 July 2026

Definition of shoved

Verb

Tournament football isn’t generally conducive to pressing, with so many matches squeezed into such a short window, and without the cohesion that comes from club sides training together for months.

— Michael Cox, New York Times, 22 July 2026
My problem is the kart path along the road has 3 or so feet of grass between it and the road, then suddenly the grass narrows and is eventually gone before going over the bridge and everything is squeezed together.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of squeezed

Verb

The Jayhawks defeated Wichita State on Monday in Wichita, drove back to Lawrence on Tuesday morning, then boarded the bus for Lexington late Tuesday afternoon.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026
The Iran war triggered a historic oil shortage that drove up fuel costs and catapulted inflation to a three-year high in May, the same month Warsh took the helm of the central bank.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 30 July 2026

Definition of drove

Verb

In Memphis, Tennessee, residents are exhausted at being thrust into the national discourse over crime and safety.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026
The ongoing, high-profile trial has thrust the topic of maternal mental health—and postpartum psychosis in particular—into the national spotlight.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 31 July 2026

Definition of thrust

Verb

For a few centimeters, one of your body’s main electrical cables runs just under the skin, pressed against bone.

— Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Those in black tops pressed the reds, then the yellow tops pressed the black tops before the red tops pressed the yellows.

— James Pearce, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of pressed

Verb

This strategic shift has propelled Madrid to the top of Deloitte's Money League, demonstrating how continental clubs leveraging stadium assets and commercial deals are now financially outperforming Premier League teams reliant on broadcast income.

— Sam Leveridge, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
The fires of the last two weeks have propelled 2026 ahead of last year at the same time, with more land burned than by this point in 2025.

— Josh Holder, New York Times, 28 July 2026