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pushed

/ ʊʃ /

adjective

  1. informal.
    often foll by for short (of) or in need (of time, money, etc)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Earlier this month conservationists warned that some of the UK's rarest wildlife is being "torched alive" and pushed closer to extinction after weeks of intense grass fires.

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My hedonistic weeklong breaks from school were about resting up and devouring novels, my stack of fiction pushed aside through semesters of full class loads and at least one job.

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Wallace said that Feltz's complaint "knocked him for six", and also pushed back against Allsopp's comments about his language, saying: "I wouldn't have said that."

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But she has pushed back when possible, suggesting Mexico would retaliate if the Trump administration carried out drone strikes in its territory, pushing a constitutional measure that effectively bans the planting of U.S.

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The problem, he says, was a record label who'd pushed him in a more commercial direction.

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