pusher

Definition of pushernext

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Recent Examples of pusher His role as a pusher is key in helping the sled attain top speed. American-Statesman Staff, Austin American Statesman, 15 Feb. 2026 With a large curved board and walls at either end, a snow pusher efficiently pushes snow forward. Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 23 Jan. 2026 This set comes with a cuticle pusher and a buffer to smooth nails and leave them looking polished and clean. Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2026 Each set includes 42 nails of various sizes, an alcohol prep pad, a dual-sided nail file and buffer, cuticle pusher, and nail glue. Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 29 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pusher
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Noun
  • After a dramatic Easter weekend for the war in Iran—downed American fighter jets, a daring rescue behind enemy lines, and strikes on universities and petrochemical plants—traders hesitated at Monday’s opening bell.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Bloomberg reported last month that xAI had posted a job listing looking for Wall Street bankers, portfolio managers, traders, and credit analysts to help teach the tool about the world of financial services.
    Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The tactic has become more popular with smugglers as police on the beaches try to thwart crossings by puncturing the rafts that groups of migrants have to inflate and carry to the water.
    ABC News, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Cook County Jail in Chicago, which houses nearly 5,000 detainees, has reported increasing cases of smugglers soaking paper with synthetic drugs and sending them into the jail through mail or visitors.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Hungarians living near the southern frontier, where Orbán made a show of building a border fence during the refugee crisis, are travelling to Croatia to buy cheap groceries.
    Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Using the HistoPad, visitors fly down a dirt road flanked by wooden snake rail fences to the intersection of Trade and Tryon streets.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • His father was a factory worker and a barber, as well as a bootlegger and loan shark.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2026
  • His death reportedly was the result of a dispute with a bootlegger.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The show was based on Guy Ritchie's 2000 heist film of the same name, with Westwick starring as hustler Sonny Castillo.
    Rachel DeSantis, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Stone recalled filming a scene in which her hustler character asks De Niro’s bigshot casino-operating character for money.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Inside that costume was Piper Randolph, a first-team All-American junior fencer who excelled in the Pan-American Cadet Championships.
    Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Szabo, a fencer from Romania, was competing at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, and was assisted by a friend who drove him away from the athletes’ village and to freedom.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026

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“Pusher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pusher. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.

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