pushing

Example Sentences

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Some consultants agree, at times pointing to limited major-transfer options and instead pushing students to traditional paths.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

This tournament is less about sportsmanship and athletic excellence than about pushing crappy beer and extortionate credit cards?

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

A council has warned that rules designed to limit pollution are pushing up the cost of new homes and could lead to housebuilding targets being missed.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

But Locke and its community supporters — including an array of elected officials and Tanya Ortiz Franklin, the L.A. school board member for that area — are pushing back.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

I lifted my hands and closed my eyes and pictured pushing all the magic away.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff