PUSHING AROUND Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

pushing around

verb

present participle of push around

as in forcing

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The air pollution has also affected several areas on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, forcing schools to suspend learning activities at school.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026
Drones launched from Iraq damaged the East-West pipeline on Thursday, forcing the Saudi government to close the key crude oil artery.

— Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of forcing

Verb

The state’s campaign watchdog can seek a court order compelling an influencer to disclose that they were paid, but that can take months.

— Sophie Austin, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026
This trend could displace hundreds of thousands of older adults, compelling them to select new Medicare Advantage plans.

— Bruce Japsen, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of compelling

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Families of the missing have been pressuring the government to speed up the rescue and recovery process from the tunnels.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
About 80 people took part in that demonstration, which was organized by local business leaders and aimed at pressuring the government to find solutions, according to Portugal’s Lusa News Agency.

— Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of pressuring

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Playing that cat, a work camp warden coercing Hawke’s character into smuggling gold through the wilderness, is none other than Russell Crowe.

— Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
But in the past, these efforts were largely aimed at threatening or coercing Washington to act in their favor.

— Dina Esfandiary, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of coercing

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Corrales argues that college athletes are relatively insulated from the forces constraining study abroad.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 27 Aug. 2026
As the United States and China continue high-level talks, constraining the underground financial architecture of the illicit economy is an opportunity for a mutual diplomatic win.

— Alvin Camba, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of constraining

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With navies built around corvette-class-sized ships, Finland and Sweden have successfully stood up to Russian pressure, harassing Russian submarines that have violated their territorial seas.

— HOLMES LIAO, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2026
He was inspired by the true story of Freda and Greta Chaplin, who in the 1980s stirred up a media frenzy for harassing a truck driver, and for bizarrely mirroring each other.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of harassing

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Recipe development can be a self-effacing task, obliging the writer to anticipate the appetites and routines of her imagined reader.

— Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
First is to prevent their further migration by enforcing an international treaty obliging national authorities to treat ballast waters inside incoming ships that may carry such species.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026

Definition of obliging

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Back inside the ring, Brock Lesnar defended himself with a steel step, bludgeoning Oba Femi three times.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
By bludgeoning the Texas Rangers, 11-2, the Astros secured the regular-season series over their intrastate rival and own the tiebreaker.

— Chandler Rome, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of bludgeoning

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