shove
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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
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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
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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
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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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