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
  • The International Organization for Migration in a statement said the migrants were part of a group of 150 others who were forced by smugglers to disembark a boat and swim to shore on June 5.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 June 2025
  • Now, though, he was led away as an international drug smuggler who had tried to bring 60 kilograms (132lb) of cannabis, with a street value of £600,000 ($815,000) into England, duping his girlfriend into being one of his couriers.
    Stuart James, New York Times, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • But way more hustlers, con artists and grifters than any other generation of human beings on Earth has ever had to comprehend before, let alone fend off.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
  • The earworm melody, and new EP, are a testament to the island’s homegrown hustlers.
    Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025

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“Pusher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pusher. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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