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as in to push
to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one
I had to keep shoving my heavy suitcase as I slowly made my way to the head of the line
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2
as in to press
to push steadily against with some force
quit shoving your hand in my face
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Recent Examples of shove
Sonam Sheth
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
Video shows President Emmanuel Macron standing in the aircraft’s open doorway when an out-of-frame hand shoves him away.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 29 May 2025
New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 May 2025
There was a shove a week before that, and the victim hit the side of a moving R train and survived.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 7 Jan. 2025
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Verb
President Donald Trump on Friday gave marital advice to French President Emmanuel Macron in the wake of video footage released this week that showed the moment Macron's wife, Brigitte, shoved him in the face.
—Sonam Sheth
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
Video shows President Emmanuel Macron standing in the aircraft’s open doorway when an out-of-frame hand shoves him away.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 29 May 2025
Noun
In late March, one repeat offender who was racing along killed a mother and her two young daughters, in a tragedy that should hold the city’s attention every bit as much as a shove onto the subway tracks or a gun homicide.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 May 2025
There was a shove a week before that, and the victim hit the side of a moving R train and survived.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 7 Jan. 2025
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Verb
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As Nuno pointed out, the player of the season award could reasonably have been renamed the ‘team of the season award’ during a campaign in which Forest followed up back-to-back fights against relegation by pushing for Champions League qualification.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
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Some of the administration's pressure tactics: threatening to take away Harvard's non-profit status, freezing $3 billion in federal grant dollars, barring the university from enrolling foreign students, and pushing Congress to increase taxes on university endowments.—
Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
27 May 2025
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Utility man Zach McKinstry, also pressed into more responsibility, is having his own career year, going from hitting .215 to .266.—
Sam Settleman,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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When elections are held, Netanyahu will most likely press the two rivals to run again on a single ticket.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
30 May 2025
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Goldstein drove Boozer home with a sacrifice fly and Corral plated the go-ahead run with a single through the right side.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 June 2025
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And two-thirds of households with an EV have another non-EV that is driven more — hardly a recipe for climate success given that EVs must be driven (a lot) to deliver climate benefits.—
Ashley Nunes,
Boston Herald,
7 June 2025
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Eventually, they were so thoroughly compressed that nuclear fusion got going—and boom, the very first stars lit up the universe.—
Robin George Andrews,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 May 2025
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Costello neatly compressed the clichés of political pop.—
Armond White,
National Review,
28 May 2025
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Scott Morrow had a solid first professional season in the AHL but looked overwhelmed at times when thrust into the NHL playoffs.—
Cory Lavalette,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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The Menendez brothers were thrust into the spotlight in the late 1980s and early 1990s for the killing of their parents.—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2025
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“Shove.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shove. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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