as in to move
to leave a place often for another
the party was getting deadly dull, so it was time to push on
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Against this backdrop, some filmmakers are attempting to push on with their projects.
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
Needs and stakeholder goals can change quickly, and the team might need to push on, even if the road ahead looks rocky.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
Hurricanes push on the ocean, causing water to build up into a storm surge that can swamp the coast with water several feet above normal ocean height.
—Cary Mock, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2024
If Harris prevails, many consumer groups want the CFPB to crack down even further, including tightening oversight of medical credit cards and other financial products that hospitals and other medical providers have started pushing on patients.
—Noam M. Levey, CBS News, 17 Oct. 2024
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
Needs and stakeholder goals can change quickly, and the team might need to push on, even if the road ahead looks rocky.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
Hurricanes push on the ocean, causing water to build up into a storm surge that can swamp the coast with water several feet above normal ocean height.
—Cary Mock, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2024
If Harris prevails, many consumer groups want the CFPB to crack down even further, including tightening oversight of medical credit cards and other financial products that hospitals and other medical providers have started pushing on patients.
—Noam M. Levey, CBS News, 17 Oct. 2024
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The 8-0 Tigers, having defeated the defending national champions from Harding in the seventh game of the season, had moved up to No. 3 in the country in the American Football Coaches Association's NCAA Division II poll.Rex Nelson, arkansasonline.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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The hearing Monday took place after Foglietta paused the case Thursday while Musk tried to move the lawsuit to federal court, but the federal judge denied the billionaire’s request on Friday, allowing the litigation to move forward in Philadelphia.Alison Durkee, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile, Biden’s refusal to exit the 2024 presidential race after a disastrous initial debate performance in June kicked off a whirlwind season that gave rise to Harris.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Harris executed an accelerated campaign after ascending to the top of the Democratic ticket over the summer after President Biden exited the race.Erin Doherty, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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Dobbins then spied an open backfield after Austin Ekeler departed the Chargers to sign with the Washington Commanders as a free agent.Elliott Teaford, Orange County Register, 7 Nov. 2024
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Now, the sun meets the skies quite early but departs just around when most of us get off work.Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2024
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Determined not to romanticize or fetishize his subjects, Fukunaga confesses to struggling during the editing process, and not always getting the calls right.Gavin J Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
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Curves on Surfaces The mystery confronting them was how to get the amplitudes that would usually come from the more intricate space-time trajectories, those with numerous splittings and mergings.Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
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Tough way for the drive to end for Philly, which opted to kick a short field goal instead of going for the tie.Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Filippone recently sold a condo whose agent went into contract, then didn’t send in his client’s application.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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The first reset was supposed to happen years ago, but during the 2008 financial crisis, Trump was able to push off the day of reckoning.Paula Aceves, Curbed, 31 Oct. 2024
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Separately, some families that were pushed off Medicaid are also waiting more than a month for food assistance because Texas uses the same eligibility system to process applications for both.Eleanor Klibanoff, ProPublica, 26 Sep. 2024
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This allowed several cables to pull out of the sockets, ultimately causing the platform to plummet into the reflector more than 400 feet below, according to the report.Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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The merger process, initiated at the end of 2023, stretched on for months and at one point Redstone pulled out of a previous agreement with Skydance at the 11th hour.Dade Hayes, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
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Some customers reported some difficulty with the frictionless payment system at the grab-and-go concession stands, unable to walk out at first as expected.Andrew Greif, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
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And in January 2023, Duran walked out of prison a free man.Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Push on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/push%20on. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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