pushback
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SoftBank-backed data-center company SB Energy has delayed its initial public offering date after getting pushback on its potential valuation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
One sign that men are no longer widely viewed as the default face of political power is that women are competing for that power in larger numbers, and with less pushback or even notice.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
He added: "The fact that they're not getting more robust pushback reinforces the wrong message."
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
And in Humboldt County, the goal of moving Centerville Road inland has long faced pushback from adjacent private landowners, who have refused to grant right-of-way access because they worried about trespassing, vandalism and safety issues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
She listened to the war reports on Radio Biafra more carefully, as if there might be clues about Ugwu in the ebullient voice reporting the pushback of the vandals, the successes of gallant Biafran soldiers.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Rising electricity rates are generating pushbacks on data-center growth.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
Gascón’s data-driven pushbacks have done little to chip at public perceptions of crime run amok.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
But they again couldn’t hold on and wound up losing, 4-3 in overtime to spoil a night otherwise highlighted by one of the team’s better pushbacks in quite some time.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2023
He hits out at France's suspension of the Schengen free movement zone on this border, which has facilitated the checks and pushbacks.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2023
The pushbacks are encouraging criminal networks that ferry the migrants clandestinely, local migrant rights group Siena argued.
From Reuters ● Apr. 25, 2023
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