PUSHES AROUND Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

pushes around

verb

present tense third-person singular of push around

as in pressures

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The government has offered cash incentives to those willing to leave and pressures others to give up legal efforts by holding them in detention.

— Cindy Carcamo, Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2026
If a company pressures you into signing a contract before evaluating other options, that’s a red flag.

— Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 3 July 2026

Definition of pressures

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The following day, the state added him to its official register of terrorists and extremists, a designation that obliges Russian banks to freeze his assets.

— Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Zeus obliges, striking their ship with a thunderbolt that destroys it and kills every member of Odysseus’ crew except the king himself.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 20 July 2026

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Hemp beverages reached national scale by selling outside the licensed marijuana system, the same system that taxes and constrains the legacy and social equity operators Dawson has spent years amplifying.

— Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Our region faces real and serious challenges, including gun violence, neighborhood disinvestment, growing wealth disparity, population stagnation and a fiscal burden that constrains public investment.

— Andrea Sáenz, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026

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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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Benedict and Sophie meet again in the countryside when Sophie protects a fellow maid after a group of Benedict’s acquaintances harasses her.

— Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
The report includes a screenshot that appears to show Accurso engaging with a comment from an Instagram account that frequently praises Hamas and harasses Jews.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 22 Jan. 2026

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