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shove

[shuhv] / ʃʌv /


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It screams as arms bearing the Japanese and US flags shove it onto a rickety karaoke stage set up in a boat.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

"Users will reject it if you're just trying to shove a puzzle down their throat that has no connection to your core values as a company."

From Barron's May 16, 2026

He could just take a tight end or whoever came to block him, grab his pads, shove him off and go make the play.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 20, 2026

“I guess this is another place for somebody to shove an ad in your face,” said the 47-year-old Yoder, recalling the first time he noticed one.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 23, 2026

I shove the phone deep inside my pocket.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

And another AI video on X depicts the pair running together through a city engulfed in flames before the female executive shoves him aside in a dramatic scene.

From Barron's May 18, 2026

Jean shoves a photocopy of an article from the Cook Islands News into my hand.

From BBC Dec. 9, 2024

Since we came for the shock value, the camera shoves our faces in its guts, bellowing to eat up.

From Salon Oct. 4, 2024

For all the eloquent monologues, it sometimes feels as though Lipstein shoves Herschel into scenes that don’t feel natural.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2023

He keeps his head down and shoves more soup into his mouth.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na

The strategists also pointed out that investor rotation into other sectors has lifted growth prospects and valuations of many “old economy” industries, long shoved aside by investors.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

He wants, if utterly hopelessly, the war shoved back into the box it once occupied, a war that Mr. Putin had grown comfortable that he could sustain indefinitely.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

The man who shoved Kelver and who allegedly initiated the confrontation, known only as “S. Durham,” has not been charged.

From Slate Jun. 4, 2026

A few months later, he found degrading posters of his head on a child’s body shoved inside his uniform pockets and gun holster and plastered over the station walls, according to the complaint.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2026

We’d shoved the big brass bed we shared into the bay window, hoping a breath of cool night air would make a wrong turn and stumble across us.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Almiron and Muldur were not directly involved in the pushing and shoving, but the game was in a heated situation.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

In New York, the opening of the Swatch store in Times Square was met with "pushing and shoving" in the waiting crowd, John McIntosh, who had been in line since Wednesday, told AFP.

From Barron's May 16, 2026

And to think he still operates with such brute force that he was shoving Rocket defenders all over the court.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2026

Left with no idea how to wrap itself up, “Undertone” throws every one of those horror tropes under a hydraulic press, shoving them together, hoping that the result will be prettier than just polished garbage.

From Salon Mar. 15, 2026

An overexcited pug snorted and gasped, shoving his short-muzzled face against the crisscross-prison-barred door of Fig’s cage.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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