1
as in to push
to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one
I had to keep shoving my heavy suitcase as I slowly made my way to the head of the line
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2
as in to press
to push steadily against with some force
quit shoving your hand in my face
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Recent Examples of shove
Hali Smith
june 2, Idaho Statesman, 2 June 2026
And Patrick Paul gave up a sack to Josh Uche during the final 11-on-11 period and shoving ensued.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026
Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026
After Hartman's high shove on Benn near the Minnesota net, the Stars forward gathered himself and responded with cross-checks to the back and then high around the neck/shoulder area.
—CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
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Verb
Neither is pushing, shoving or throwing people from the pool deck.
—Hali Smith
june 2, Idaho Statesman, 2 June 2026
And Patrick Paul gave up a sack to Josh Uche during the final 11-on-11 period and shoving ensued.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026
Noun
The Lakers coach couldn’t even sub fast enough before Ayton’s two-handed frustration shove of Oklahoma City guard Ajay Mitchell put a disappointing punctuation mark on a disastrous 19-second stretch for the Lakers starting center.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026
After Hartman's high shove on Benn near the Minnesota net, the Stars forward gathered himself and responded with cross-checks to the back and then high around the neck/shoulder area.
—CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
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The actress started advocating for menopause and mid-life care in 2024 − after her doctor misdiagnosed her symptoms as herpes − and pushed for legislation to fund research and education in women’s health.—
Wendy Naugle,
USA Today,
5 June 2026
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The visit is a chance for Xi to push for a rebalancing of these ties and to signal the importance of the relationship to Beijing at a moment of global flux.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
5 June 2026
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His blood sloshed through the device’s tiny channels and pressed against its protein snares.—
Elie Dolgin,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 June 2026
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But in May, Andrews finally got her call, after the Observer had pressed court staff for answers for weeks.—
Caitlin McGlade,
Charlotte Observer,
4 June 2026
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Ties have cooled in recent years between the two sides – while Pyongyang drove closer to Moscow.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
9 June 2026
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Advocates have long criticized the conditions at the Aurora facility, and those complaints — alongside concerns that more facilities could open in the state — helped drive HB 1276’s contents.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
9 June 2026
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Sifting Out the Solution Since receiving his doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 2000, Chan had been developing and refining ways to compress complicated quantum states by focusing only on their most important configurations.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 May 2026
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The World Cup compresses all of this into one global cultural window.—
Jeff Fromm,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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The bullet penetrated his hip, thrust through his knee and shattered his femur.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
6 June 2026
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Kim was one shot behind Kupcho after the opening round, and she was thrust into the lead early in the second despite shooting 1 over on the front nine.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 June 2026
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“Shove.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shove. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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