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Recent Examples of push around
Not a great line but solid enough to protect Daniel Jones and push around a bad Cowboys run defense.
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Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
Gridlock being gridlock and government being slow, there's a good chance paper will still be getting pushed around by this time next year.
—Brady Dale, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024
The oil embargoes of the 1970s only hastened the pace of change: Auto steel now had to be both stronger and lighter, requiring less fuel to push around.
—John Johnson Jr., Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
The state politicians’ speeches indicated the themes that the Party would be pushing around Harris’s candidacy: her background as a prosecutor and, later, as attorney general of California; her support of reproductive rights.
—Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 24 July 2024
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Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
Gridlock being gridlock and government being slow, there's a good chance paper will still be getting pushed around by this time next year.
—Brady Dale, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024
The oil embargoes of the 1970s only hastened the pace of change: Auto steel now had to be both stronger and lighter, requiring less fuel to push around.
—John Johnson Jr., Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
The state politicians’ speeches indicated the themes that the Party would be pushing around Harris’s candidacy: her background as a prosecutor and, later, as attorney general of California; her support of reproductive rights.
—Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 24 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for push around
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Loading your audio article In January, a security camera captured unnerving footage: what appeared to be a bear had forced its way into a Rolls Royce parked outside a home in the Southern California resort community of Lake Arrowhead, gouged the seats and thrashed the interior.Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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After leading a relatively peaceful life as a farmer in northern Africa with his wife, Lucius is forced into slavery and ends up becoming a gladiator like his father.Irenie Forshaw, theweek, 13 Nov. 2024
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The Israeli government insists that military force compelled those concessions—a claim Spencer echoes.John Spencer, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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Rebecca Bakker, a registered nursing professor who lives near Grand Rapids, Michigan, had already decided against voting for Trump but has not felt compelled yet towards Harris or any third-party candidates.Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2024
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The sitting President, in his eighties and visibly declining, had to be pressured into leaving the ticket; the Party no longer offers a signature policy at the scale of Obamacare or even a Green New Deal.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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However, at this point every response will have to be cleared by a team of people, so do not be pressured into an immediate response.Sandra Pretorius, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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The suit, which didn’t say how much White paid the Mexican plaintiffs, alleges that he was coerced into making the settlements.Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Musk has defended the giveaways, saying in a town hall that it was not meant to coerce people to register to vote.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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But federal oversight has been limited, constrained by priorities, authority, and by a lack of resources.Jonquilyn Hill, Vox, 5 Nov. 2024
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In the late 1970s, oil supply was constrained by OPEC and war.Linsey Miller, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Wang was appointed chair of Cupertino’s Planning Commission in 2019, but was ousted from his post last year following accusations of harassing community members and city officials.Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Advertisement More than third of election officials surveyed this year by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law said they have been harassed, threatened or abused for carrying out their work.Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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The 1965 Dodgers were bludgeoned in Games 1 and 2 in Minnesota, Don Drysdale losing the opener, 8-2, and Sandy Koufax – who had missed that Game 1 start to observe Yom Kippur – dropping Game 2, 5-1.Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 27 Oct. 2024
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This is good news on its own, since community colleges were flat bludgeoned with enrollment declines during the pandemic.Derek Newton, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Studios are legally obliged to ensure that the data contained in the financial statements for their production companies is true and accurate.Caroline Reid, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Digital Services Act, a regulation that came into force in November 2022, obliges platforms to provide access to researchers for certain projects.ByKai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Push around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/push%20around. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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