Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pushed around
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And then the occasional strip club that I was forced to go to.—
Frank DiGiacomo,
Billboard,
3 Nov. 2025 -
According to Adams, Koehler forced the woman from her upstairs bedroom down to downstairs, purposely disorienting her — the basis for the kidnapping charge he was also found guilty of.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Fans chanted for Lo LaBonta to come on, and Hayes obliged in the 67th minute, bringing the KC Current captain on for Lily Yohannes.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
30 Oct. 2025
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Member nations are collectively obliged to respond to attacks on other alliance nations under Article 5 of the founding treaty.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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North Korea simply may no longer feel strongly compelled to say yes.—
Will Ripley,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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The film, which screenwriter Rowan Joffé adapted from a 2014 novel of the same name by Lawrence Osborne, seems aware of the orientalist mustiness of this premise without being compelled to subvert it in any meaningful way.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Detectives even allegedly coerced Rosie into signing a document implicating Frank Jordano and his father, Iorlando Jordano.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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This is the real danger for the NBA—players who get coerced into trying to rig games.—
Scott Soshnick,
Sportico.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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Apple delivered a great September quarter Thursday evening, even as iPhone supply was constrained by strong demand.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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What’s more, Microsoft will remain capacity constrained for the remainder of the fiscal year, Hood said.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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One teen said Scarr routinely pressured him for oral sex, including in the sanctuary, and threatened to kill himself if the boy refused.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
30 Oct. 2025
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Taylor alleges she was pressured by Henry's wife into pleading guilty to the charge, and was made to write apology notes to Henry and the police as part of her probation.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Bichette bludgeoned it for a three-run home run, bringing Dodgers manager Dave Roberts from the dugout to remove Ohtani amid delirium.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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Found lying under a pine tree in her backyard the next morning, she had been repeatedly bludgeoned with a golf club — and stabbed with a broken piece of it — after a night out looking to cause some pre-Halloween mischief with friends who lived in the neighborhood.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
28 Oct. 2025
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Chipotle in April paid $20,000 to settle allegations an assistant manager in Kansas repeatedly harassed a Muslim employee for wearing a hijab and even attempted to remove it.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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In the spring of 2022, Blunt’s son, who is Black, and who was in third grade at the time, started getting severely harassed and bullied by a group of white students.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Pushed around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pushed%20around. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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