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tugging

noun as in quick pull

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He’s had a clear view of rules discussions throughout his career, including the recent tug between expanding the playoffs or not.

The rioters pulled at least two of the Capitol Police officers in riot gear into the crowd, stealing their batons and pepper spray and setting off a kind of human tug of war, before other officers were eventually able to pull their colleagues out.

He approached one of the women, according to court papers, and tried to yank fliers from her hand, resulting in a tug of war over the papers before the woman was able to pull back from Brennan with the fliers, according to police.

A tug-of-war between distribution and supply may emerge in coming months, but in the United States, leaders of Operation Warp Speed are already anticipating the possibility of a surplus of vaccine.

When a worker signaled for the tug operator to pull forward, six workers stood with their backs to the conveyor belts, per the safety protocol.

Even with all her comforts and a constant, tugging ennui, Mei knows the risks that she faces as an ernai.

Heart-tugging tales about her own six-year-old son, Cole, who was born with Down Syndrome.

Throughout, the investigation churns on, tugging us along with it.

Those images stayed with her, tugging at her, she says, to go back one day and help.

Sharp increase though that may be, the forces that have kept the city quiet for the past 11 months have hardly stopped tugging.

For Mrs. Robin had an end of a pinkish-white worm in her bill, on which she was tugging as hard as she could.

A fifty-mile breeze lashed us spitefully, tugging at our shirt-sleeves and drowning our voices, while we halted on that pinnacle.

Stop and try a ride, Billy, urged Lance Darby, holding the cord of the tugging kite.

Eloise was puzzled, but the sight of Mrs. Biggs tugging at her wet satchel to open it diverted her mind.

She was tugging at her bonnet strings, which were entangled in a knot, into which the cord of her eyeglasses had become twisted.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tugging, such as: draw, jerk, tow, traction, strain, and drag.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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