pusher

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Recent Examples of pusher The women wore an orange oversize top tied at the bust and paired the top with pedal-pusher pants and matching V-neck tops in the orange shade. Starr Bowenbank, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025 Competing machines offer refresh rates that can be twice as fast, or more, and this laptop has the ultimate frame-pusher in the form of the RTX 5090. Mark Coppock, PC Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025 Prosecutors often have a much better chance of convicting a drug pusher than a conman, because the former’s crimes are easier to explain to a jury than an intricate series of transactions involving financial instruments, joint ventures and limited liability companies. Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025 The pusher ran off and has not been caught. John Annese, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pusher
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pusher
Noun
  • In this age of discovery, new maritime technologies including the caravel, information tools like the printing press, and changes in the process of loaning money all helped contribute to an upswell of European traders looking for new markets to conquer by force.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This week's comeback, however, is reminiscent of the height of the pandemic, when retail traders took on online message boards such as Reddit's WallStreetBets to coordinate moves behind high-risk, aggressive trades.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • When whispers spread that their smugglers may, in fact, be traffickers, Arron’s optimism starts to unravel.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
  • What Happens Next The border crossings were scheduled to reopen at midday Saturday, according to Ruginiene, who said the country’s National Security Commission would meet next week to discuss how to tackle the smugglers.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That was a 109-mph missile over the center field fence, much higher than its intended target and hundreds of feet farther.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The cost to repair his wooden fence was between $4,000 and $5,000, Boyd said.
    Lauren De Young, AZCentral.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Tunnels story is that Chinese immigrants built a network of tunnels under the city because they were forced to live underground; the tunnels were then used by gangsters and bootleggers, including Al Capone.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Prohibition also took hold in Indiana during the decade, though bootleggers did pop up across the state.
    Joe Mutascio, IndyStar, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And next January, plus-sized racist BLM hustler Monica Cannon-Grant gets locked up for a good long stretch.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Gus Van Sant’s landmark drama is chiefly remembered for River Phoenix’s nakedly anguished performance as Mike, a spiritually adrift gay hustler.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Lehfeldt has been at the center of controversy for USA Fencing dating back to April when women's fencer Stephanie Turner went viral for kneeling in protest of a transgender fencer, and was disqualified.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Miles Chamley-Watson, the Olympic fencer, uses Sturm’s vitamin C serum.
    Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2025

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“Pusher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pusher. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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