press for

phrasal verb

pressed for; pressing for; presses for

: to make a demand for (something)

Laborers are pressing for higher wages.

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Soledad O’Brien stopped by the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance and scolded the American press for its coverage of Donald Trump. —

Zack Sharf, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025 Some European officials plan to press for an unwinding of export restrictions ordered by President Joe Biden that have limited the kinds of computing power that countries like Poland and Portugal can buy, Bloomberg reports. —

Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025 Even visits by Vatican representatives to the island to press for the release of the protestors were unable to break the deadlock until the final days of the Biden administration. —

Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025 Days prior, Stephanie Jones, who had done press for Baldoni, filed her own lawsuit in Manhattan against Baldoni and his reps, Nathan and Abel. —

Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for press for