1
as in to push
to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one
the cat thrust her paw under the couch, trying to reach her toy mouse
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as in to rise
to move or extend upward
the butte thrusts up 300 feet from the floor of the valley
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as in heave
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Recent Examples of thrust
Abc News, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024
Absolute Technologies, which originally began as a small machine shop in Santa Fe Springs making service repairs for Textron’s Bell Helicopters, makes landing gears, thrust reverser cylinders, flight control pistons, load transfer components and assemblies.
—Pat Maio, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
Amber Dasilva / Jalopnik, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2024
With 33 engines at its base, each more powerful than one of the nine used on the Falcon, the Super Heavy booster packs roughly 10 times the amount of thrust at liftoff.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 13 Oct. 2024
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The claims thrust the town and immigration policy into the national spotlight, and prompted pushback from Ohio's Republican Gov. Mike DeWine and other officials.
—Abc News, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024
Absolute Technologies, which originally began as a small machine shop in Santa Fe Springs making service repairs for Textron’s Bell Helicopters, makes landing gears, thrust reverser cylinders, flight control pistons, load transfer components and assemblies.
—Pat Maio, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
Noun
Unlike chemical propulsion systems, nuclear thermal propulsion systems rely on nuclear fission reactions to heat the propellant that is then expelled from the nozzle to create the driving force or thrust.
—Amber Dasilva / Jalopnik, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2024
With 33 engines at its base, each more powerful than one of the nine used on the Falcon, the Super Heavy booster packs roughly 10 times the amount of thrust at liftoff.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 13 Oct. 2024
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Winds push warm water from the eastern Pacific toward Asia, warming surface temperatures in the western Pacific.Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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There’s a catch—that report was published in 2000, but Facebook’s (now Meta’s) push to offset iMessages’s lock on iPhones has not changed since.Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Fashion Asia Hong Kong’s showcase 10 Asian Designers To Watch is a barometer of the rising fashion stars in the region.Gemma A. Williams, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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Hotter rock rises away from Earth’s center, and cooler rock sinks toward it.Andrew Gase, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2024
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The Huskies didn’t firmly grab the offensive rebound, though, and their final heave was nowhere close to a real shot.Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
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For all the nighttime bustle on display — the heave of people, the constant activity and chaos — Kapadia shoots with a flair for the illusory.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
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The late-night host then obliterated a donut by shoving one of his hands through the hole.Michaela Zee, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
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Shameless, just-in-time-for-holiday-shopping product placement is shoved in, from Mattel (Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots, Hot Wheels) and Hasbro (Monopoly), only alluding more to the capitalist imperatives that drove the project in the first place.Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2024
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Some even poked holes into the shade cloth with their nails, while other adventurous souls climbed a tree conveniently overlooking the nets.Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
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While prices could climb on a variety of goods shipped to the U.S., the potential impact on motorists and on the transportation sector could be particularly acute, analysts say.Kate Gibson, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2024
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His bitter resentment at this upheaval is startling, even in the annals of Second World War cinema, where fraught farewells in crowded train stations abound.Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
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Adding to the upheaval is the fact that another researcher recently left the company.Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
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Of course, five minutes in the attic on a summer day, or one accidental brush against the insulation, quickly drives home the reality that the attic is just an attic.Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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The children’s 20-something-year-old father, who was Lara’s boyfriend of more than a decade, was driving when the crash happened.Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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As Trump’s numbers ascended on Tuesday night, Bitcoin hit a new record high, topping $75,000.Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 6 Nov. 2024
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Vice President Harris fell short of making history as the first woman — and first woman of color — to ascend to the presidency on Tuesday, but multiple other candidates of color did seal their place in the history books.Cheyanne M. Daniels, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Thrust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thrust. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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