pushed around

past tense of push around

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pushed around
Verb
  • Willard obliged, giving the soon-to-be NBA draft pick the team’s final shot.
    Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2025
  • As a non-contract player, Yeovil Town were not obliged to pay anything for him but did offer a small fee.
    Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The bipartisan vote for release marks a significant shift, as Republicans in the full House had previously blocked two Democratic resolutions that would have compelled the report's release.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Without China making the first move, Chinese firms will be compelled by genuine market forces rather than often heavy-handed and inefficient state mandates to realize Xi’s vision.
    Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Unlike other fields that have large, high-quality datasets available to train AI models, such as image analysis and language processing, the AI in drug development is constrained by small, low-quality datasets.
    Christian Macedonia, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Even constrained by the low initial altitude, the toss method helps keep Ukrainian jets outside the range of Russia’s most dangerous surface-to-air missile batteries.
    David Axe, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Her daughter, Martha Moxley, was found bludgeoned and fatally stabbed with a golf club in the backyard of her family’s home in Greenwich’s tony Belle Haven neighborhood on Halloween 1975.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 27 Dec. 2024
  • She was bludgeoned and strangled to death in the basement of her family's Boulder home in 1996.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Butler was incredulous that Curry – harassed by Houston’s long defenders such as Amen Thompson during a three-point, 1-of-10 shooting night – did not get more foul calls.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Jeters said some residents have been the target of restraining orders by other former inmates in the area who felt harassed, but that the goal is to protest peacefully.
    Jason Kravarik, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Vance pressed Zelenskyy, who has thanked America over and over.
    Maureen Dowd, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Cantwell and other Senators pressed Isaacman on plans to use NASA’s Space Launch System rocket as part of the overall plan to get astronauts to the lunar surface.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Of the 24 species of scrub mints known today, over half are listed as threatened or endangered at either the state or federal level.
    Andre A. Naranjo, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Each year, the group releases a list of the state’s most endangered historic places, often historic buildings threatened with demolition.
    Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
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“Pushed around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pushed%20around. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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