pushing around
推来推去,推来推去的,推推搡搡,推推攘攘
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- : to press upon or against with force in order to move it away.
- : to move in a specified way by exerting force; shove; drive: to push something aside; to push the door open.
- : to effect or accomplish by thrusting obstacles aside: to push one's way through the crowd.
- : to cause to extend or project; thrust.
- : to press or urge to some action or course: His mother pushed him to get a job.
- : to press with energy and insistence: to push a bill through Congress.
- : to carry toward a conclusion or extreme: She pushed the project to completion.
- : to press the adoption, use, sale, etc., of: to push inferior merchandise on customers.
- : to press or bear hard upon, as in dealings with someone: The prosecutor pushed him for an answer.
- : to put into difficulties because of the lack of something specified: to be pushed for time.
- : Slang. to peddle.
- : Informal. to be approaching a specific age, speed, or the like: The maestro is pushing ninety-two.
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Examples
Many of them plan to help finance the latest push for new, K-12 curriculum.
The United States already has more carbon-capture facilities than any other country in the world and could seize global market leadership with a concerted innovation push from the government.
Though the 2019 study observed that the watch tended to undercount wheelchair pushes, I found that the watch tended to overestimate my number of pushes slightly.
Even so, buyers say the push to constantly replan as well as to generate “good results” for clients even with economic uncertainty has been draining.
The smaller HomePod will help Apple renew its push into the smart home at a lower price, albeit with fewer speakers inside the device than the current $299 model.
Instead, straighten your civic backbone and push back in clear conscience.
In Afghanistan, there was a push to take back the southern province Helmand.
Doubling down on Schedule I is, at best, a deranged way to push Americans away from “medical,” and toward recreational, use.
After some animated debate at the conference, Lelaie declared, with some frustration, “If you push on the stick, you will fly.”
Slowly, two were opened up, and in 2010 the regional government opened all four Brogpa villages in a push for tourism.
The sense of bearing on to the voice, or endeavoring to push the tone by any pressure whatever, should be absolutely avoided.
Thereupon the governor attacked him alone, and giving a violent push on the door, opened it.
One Turkish Company, about a hundred strong, was making an ugly push within rifle shot of our ship.
A resolute push for quite a short period now might reconstruct the entire basis of our collective human life.