pushed around

verb

past tense of push around
as in forced

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pushed around
  1. forced
  2. obliged
  3. compelled
  4. coerced
  5. constrained
  6. pressured
  7. bludgeoned
  8. harassed
Verb
  • 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
  • Just as Treasury is likely forced back toward longer-term bonds, the Fed under new Chair Kevin Warsh is moving to shrink its own balance sheet.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of forced
Verb
  • Smotrich says the ultra-Orthodox should be obliged to serve, but that arresting them would create division.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 7 Aug. 2026
  • What changes from one announcement to the next is who is obliged to deliver it.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of obliged
Verb
  • No law required it, no lawsuit compelled it, and the commission had not even reported.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Anna is a complicated character dealing with a mysterious trauma that has compelled the career change to become a ranger.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of compelled
Verb
  • Advocates who filed the lawsuit are concerned that people with disabilities will be steered toward or coerced into using this option.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Majorities of Americans are worried about election officials being coerced, lax ballot security, and voter intimidation leading up to the 2026 midterm elections, according to new polling from Gallup.
    — Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 30 July 2026
Definition of coerced
Verb
  • When that ability gets constrained, when communication feels censored, when speed is prized over rigor, when ambiguity gets exploited instead of clarified, the meaning of the work itself starts to erode.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 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 constrained
Verb
  • And this time Roth won’t be pressured to tone down the carnage.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Zelensky’s direct appeals to Congress for specific weapons pressured the White House to approve these transfers in the first years of the war, as did his criticism of the Biden administration’s delays in delivering more advanced systems.
    — Dafna H. Rand, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of pressured
Verb
  • France has bludgeoned the opposition, scoring 16 goals while conceding just two.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026
  • Two days after Gerardi released the report, on April 26, 1998, he was bludgeoned to death in his home.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 July 2026
Definition of bludgeoned
Verb
  • The investigation also probed Arday's past claims about being threatened and harassed on campus following his Cambridge appointment, which reportedly yielded some inconsistencies.
    — Mason Leib, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Union activists routinely harassed migrants, reported them to immigration authorities and even organized their own patrols along the border, some of which resulted in violence against immigrants.
    — Eladio Bobadilla, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of harassed
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