PUSHES AROUND Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

pushes around

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present tense third-person singular of push around

as in pressures

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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
An activist often pressures a board to focus more on costs, assets, and capital allocation.

— Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026

Definition of pressures

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Will’s obsessive, put-upon mother, Susan (Tandi Wright), belittles Alice, dresses her down for her attire at the funeral, and forces her to wear heels that don’t fit, leaving her feet bloody.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 10 July 2026
This system forces new buyers to shoulder a much higher tax rate, which effectively locks young and minority families out of the housing market.

— Dale V.C. Holness, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026

Definition of forces

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Further, since a charging order compels an LLC to re-direct distribution payments to the creditor, the appeals court further mused that such was enough to create standing since the LLCs needed to know who to pay.

— Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
When systemic failures persist, lawsuits are the catalyst that compels meaningful reform and protects children who cannot protect themselves.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2026

Definition of compels

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That emergency obliges all of us — critical filmmakers, activists, big and small festivals — to be more courageous.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 18 June 2026
The court replaced it with a read-in version that obliges parliament to refer a panel’s findings to the impeachment committee, which is responsible for conducting a full inquiry into the hearing evidence, determining whether grounds exist to remove a sitting president.

— Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 8 May 2026

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Better Decisions, Earlier What constrains superintendents is how much time every day gets consumed by documentation and piecing together what happened, rather than applying that judgment to what comes next.

— Mike Winn, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
The fact that Starlink PNT is limited to communication with a single satellite at a time also constrains performance, whereas receiving multiple satellite measurement signals from many different angles could improve its accuracy.

— Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026

Definition of constrains

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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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