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as in pushes
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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as in presses
to push steadily against with some force
quit shoving your hand in my face
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Recent Examples of shoves
Alice Burton, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026
Season 2 springboards on Fisk’s strongarm rule and his mandate to clean up the streets of rebels via his brutish Anti-Vigilante Task Force, which rounds up people – echoing recent INS maneuvers – and shoves them into deplorable conditions and cages.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
But for a mine, all that needs to happen is a vessel pulls up, shoves one overboard, and moves on.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026
Levi shoves someone just out of the frame, demands to know who threw stones, and later fires a shot, seemingly away from the crowd.
—Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
The agent shoves the observer again, and then turns his attention to Pretti, pushing him out of the way before shoving the observer to the ground.
—Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
In one video Pretti appears to intervene after an agent shoves a person.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 25 Jan. 2026
The same officer shoves Pretti in his chest, leading Pretti and the other protester to stumble backward.
—Hannah Fingerhut, Twin Cities, 25 Jan. 2026
At 12 seconds in the second video, the agent shoves the woman wearing the cream jacket to the ground.
—Kif Leswing,terri Cullen, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026
Verb
Frances shoves June at Boy Carteret.
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026
Season 2 springboards on Fisk’s strongarm rule and his mandate to clean up the streets of rebels via his brutish Anti-Vigilante Task Force, which rounds up people – echoing recent INS maneuvers – and shoves them into deplorable conditions and cages.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
But for a mine, all that needs to happen is a vessel pulls up, shoves one overboard, and moves on.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026
Levi shoves someone just out of the frame, demands to know who threw stones, and later fires a shot, seemingly away from the crowd.
—Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
The agent shoves the observer again, and then turns his attention to Pretti, pushing him out of the way before shoving the observer to the ground.
—Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
In one video Pretti appears to intervene after an agent shoves a person.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 25 Jan. 2026
The same officer shoves Pretti in his chest, leading Pretti and the other protester to stumble backward.
—Hannah Fingerhut, Twin Cities, 25 Jan. 2026
At 12 seconds in the second video, the agent shoves the woman wearing the cream jacket to the ground.
—Kif Leswing,terri Cullen, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoves
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Moving from the treadmill to the floor, adding the use of dumbbells while balancing on a workout ball then back to the treadmill pushes participants to levels normally meant for professional athletes.—
Jeff Wagner,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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That rapid turnover pushes demand—and prices—higher.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
14 Apr. 2026
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Graham-Dixon presses its claim afresh, and, in the process, discovers it everywhere.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Mahajan presses firmly into the inner lives and cerebral crevices of terror victims, witnesses and perpetrators.—
Sibani Ram,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2026
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The trading push comes as the Middle East war disrupts commodity flows and drives up costs across global supply chains.—
Lee Ying Shan,Emily Tan,
CNBC,
16 Apr. 2026
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Scientists know that dark energy is an all-pervasive something that drives the universe’s accelerating expansion.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2026
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The video compresses nearly an hour of totality into a short sequence, showing the precise alignment of the sun, moon and spacecraft, as the Artemis 2 crew flew around the far side of the moon on April 6.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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This one compresses a century of change into a decade.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Shoves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoves. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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