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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pushers
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For now, data on Monday showed no clear sign that authorities stepped into the market in Tokyo last Friday, though traders still cannot rule out a small-scale intervention.—
Erica Yokoyama,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026 -
Crowded bearish positions now carry greater risk in an era where retail traders can quickly mobilize capital and amplify moves.—
Yun Li,Kate Rooney,Alex Harring,
CNBC,
27 Jan. 2026
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So can those who set prices; deal with Mexican cartel suppliers; launder money; establish drug houses; and pay smugglers, intermediaries and others.—
Kevin Krause,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Yes, arrest the murderers, drug lords and gang members, thieves and smugglers.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
2 Jan. 2026
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Key lime pie has been enjoyed by locals in Key West for over 100 years, which means bootleggers and Ernest Hemingway both (most likely) indulged in the sweet-tart treat.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
28 Dec. 2025
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No one knows why; no one has a telephone in the rural Blue Ridge Mountains, so John Boy sets out into a winter storm to find his daddy, having various escapades with the quirky residents of their backwoods community—a Black preacher, a pair of old-lady bootleggers, a turkey thief—along the way.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Dec. 2025
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Dozens of immigrant families protested Saturday behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.—
Valerie Gonzalez,
Twin Cities,
25 Jan. 2026
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Syrian government forces moved in to secure the camp a day later but, in the meantime, fences had been pulled down and dozens of prisoners had escaped.—
Chas Newkey-Burden,
TheWeek,
23 Jan. 2026
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Whether set in Jewish eastern Europe or New York’s Lower East Side, Shtok’s range is on full display, from gossipy melodramas and elegiac reveries to coming of age portraits of shtetl adolescents and immigrant hustlers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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Using Reisman’s memoir as a springboard, Safdie and screenwriting partner Ronald Bronstein started to craft their own story, inventing characters and conflicts set in a similar world of table tennis hustlers.—
Julien Levy,
Rolling Stone,
27 Dec. 2025
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“Pushers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pushers. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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