as in bears (down on)
to push steadily against with some force
the bulky backpack weighed upon my back uncomfortably
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Alas, Shao Khan smashes Cole’s head with a hammer, Gallagher style, and shoves his body into a vat of acid.—
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Our boy runs up, shoves the other player, and gets the ball.—
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When Paula presses Agnes to use ranunculus centerpieces rather than calla lilies, Weston does well to silence the evil step-MOB.—
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The pursuing agent presses a button, unlocking the device attached to their vehicle’s front bumper, and a net springs out.—
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The moment everyone sees it, the return compresses and disappears.—
Alexander Foster,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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But the window that Pawlikowski chooses for Fatherland is defiantly compact, a stretch of time that the director compresses even more to place the suicide of Erika’s brother Klaus, which happened in the south of France two months before, within the space of the trip.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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“Weighs (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weighs%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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