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shove

verb as in push without gentleness

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Jessie Fuentes, a Chicago alderperson, reported being shoved twice and subsequently handcuffed by ICE agents after asking whether they had a warrant to be inside a Chicago hospital.

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I’m not sure that will happen, inasmuch as Dobbs didn’t remove abortion from the political realm as Roe attempted to do, but shoved the subject back into it.

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Yeah, I didn’t want it to feel to like I’m shoving a message down your throat or whatever.

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“This shows how divisive a narrative can be when shoved down our throats by social media,” he wrote on Instagram.

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“They probably shoved him with beef and red wine,” Lauper says, less aggrieved than sympathetic.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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