pusher

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Recent Examples of pusher Vancouver, Canada Winter Olympics Elana would throw herself into her new sport with punishing workouts to build up her speed and power as a pusher (the pusher also acts as brakewoman of the sled). Tim Genske, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025 The authors were able to examine the medical and police records of twenty individual subway pushers. Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2025 Elana, who is built like her father with a short explosive build, was a natural pusher; The pusher tries to maximize the speed of the bobsled at the start of the race. Tim Genske, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025 The former leader oversaw a ferocious crackdown on drug pushers in the Southeast Asian country, targeting with relentless and bloody zeal a criminal trade that had sparked widespread anger among his supporters. Rob Picheta, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pusher
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pusher
Noun
  • The acronym — which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out — was coined by a Financial Times columnist and has since been adopted by traders attempting to navigate the dozens of changes to tariff policy Trump has announced over the early months of his presidency.
    Bloomberg, Oc Register, 28 May 2025
  • Professional traders and algorithms move faster than retail investors, digesting and acting on information in milliseconds.
    Adam Sarhan, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • In a separate incident, two human smugglers were sentenced May 15 after a series of high-speed chases near the border.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 24 May 2025
  • And the smugglers’ knack for evolving and evading authorities also appears unchanged.
    Aarne Heikkila, NBC news, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • The veterans hall’s roof is parallel to St. Louis Avenue, with just a decorative black fence separating the top of the building from traffic.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025
  • Then in September, a Secret Service agent spotted the muzzle of a rifle sticking out of a fence in bushes at Trump's West Palm Beach golf club while scouting the course ahead of Trump.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • However, when a bootlegger is seen as simply trying to ride others’ success in a self-serving manner, community support quickly wanes, and job opportunities for the bootlegger can even dry out.
    London School of Economics, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • Or Telfar’s reimagining of Canal Street bootleggers as craftspeople, just as important as their Italian counterparts.
    Jeremy O. Harris, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Bookkeeper side hustlers must have accounting knowledge to manage financial records usually for small businesses. 15.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • Think of snark as a Better Business Bureau for the untamable world of influencing – a form of accountability that brings attention to the scammers and hustlers.
    Jess Rauchberg, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025

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“Pusher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pusher. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.

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