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pushes around

verb

present tense third-person singular of push around
as in pressures

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  1. pressures
  2. forces
  3. compels
  4. obliges
  5. constrains
  6. bludgeons
  7. coerces
  8. harasses
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  • High inflation also pressures the Fed to reduce the money supply by increasing interest rates, making cheap credit harder to get.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
  • If a message pressures you to donate immediately, verify your identity or click a link before a deadline, avoid using the link in the email when anything feels off.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of pressures
Verb
  • Cooper told Fox40 that changes to state parole laws are up to the state Legislature, which might not act until a high-profile case forces its hands.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Every year, by design, the law forces thousands of inefficient old vehicles off the road as the cost of compliance rises and parts become harder to find.
    — Kyle Cheromcha, The Drive, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of forces
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  • However, the necessity of operating without a financial safety net compels one to internalize these lessons.
    — Shreyans Lodha, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • And most of them did not choose the economic arrangement that compels them to burn that carbon, that splits labor and leisure in this way, that organizes work and pleasure around certain kinds of mobility.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of compels
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  • The stabs at humor also fall flat, even if the gimmick of a priest injecting his enemies with a serum that obliges them to attend mass every Sunday is kind of fun the first time, but not really the second or third.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
  • And Ric Salinas, who plays Chachalacani, humorously obliges, bringing his Culture Clash vaudeville skills to the role of the sentry who’s caught between the rock of Klion’s tyranny and his fellow feeling for Antíkona’s sympathetic cause.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of obliges
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  • Fiscal Dominance Changes The Objective Fiscal dominance describes a regime in which the scale of public debt and deficits constrains monetary policy.
    — Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Advertisement The trouble with military hegemony The dominant role of Pakistan’s military further constrains political space.
    — Aqil Shah, Time, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of constrains
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  • Lo then bludgeons Richard in the head with a metal pipe and kills him.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
Definition of bludgeons
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  • However, the rotation of this filament clearly dominates how the galaxies within it spin, perhaps by funneling hydrogen gas along the dark-matter filament and onto the galaxies in a way that coerces their spin while providing further fuel for star formation.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, Ali, a university professor, coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
Definition of coerces
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  • Then Murphy takes a swing at a cop when the flatfoot harasses the two of them during a misunderstanding in an alleyway, and he’s arrested.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Although China’s maritime militia fleet regularly harasses other countries’ small and vulnerable fishing boats, the container ships and bulk carriers responsible for Taiwan’s commerce dwarf any Chinese militia vessel.
    — Eugene Gholz, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2026
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