- present participle of thrust.
thrusting
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Ms. Paulus’s staging, set in period, wisely avoids thrusting the play ham-handedly into a contemporary context.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
How quickly the brain and body react after tripping — with your foot automatically thrusting forward, for example, to prevent yourself from face-planting — is what plyometrics trains for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
By-elections have a habit of thrusting a constituency into the limelight and for five or six weeks part of Essex has again found itself at the centre of a media storm.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
"The spacecraft is in great shape, and we're on schedule to resume sustained thrusting with the solar-electric propulsion system later this fall."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
The crowd, full of good feeling, replete with food and drunk with the music, vicariously excited, pressed round, eagerly thrusting over their heads garland after garland of flowers; the earth was spattered with petals.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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