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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Dylan Newsome Being the star athlete, Dylan has a complicated relationship with football because his father pressures him to win.

— Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of pressures

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Users already use it to write profiles and draft messages, Sharabi said, which forces dating companies to decide how much of it belongs inside their products.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026
Nissan has engineered a software algorithm that artificially forces the engine's sound and RPMs to rise in perfect, linear lockstep with the car’s physical road speed.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of forces

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Frank’s ruling keeps the proposal to raise the homestead exemption up to $250,000 for Florida property owners on the ballot, but compels Attorney General James Uthmeier to rewrite parts of the plan.

— Romy Ellenbogen Herald, Miami Herald, 4 Aug. 2026
The competitive pressure to achieve maximal adoption compels a convergence toward openness.

— Gerui Wang, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of compels

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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

Definition of obliges

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There are others, however, who disagree – arguing that the harms caused by gun deaths, drug abuse and overdose, and the spread of preventable disease require regulation that constrains or prohibits completely people’s freedom to choose.

— Jen Cole Wright, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026
The City Charter governs and constrains the power of the mayor and the City Council, and the citizens must vote to change it.

— Joseph Landers, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 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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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
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

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