adjective
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enterprising, resourceful, or aggressively ambitious
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impertinently self-assertive
adverb
Other Word Forms
- pushingly adverb
- pushingness noun
Etymology
Origin of pushing
Example Sentences
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If I were to name it more plainly, I might call it Beatrix Potter weather: damp cuffs, garden gates, the feeling that something is pushing up just beneath the soil.
From Salon
She is pushing the county to consider alternatives, including perhaps hand weeding or even grazing goats.
From Los Angeles Times
John Wellwood, of North Berwick Community Council, said it was pushing for a legal review of the measures and the process of implementing it.
From BBC
That limits the state’s supply of homes for sale, pushing prices higher and increasing the incentive not to sell, said Ken DeLeon, founder of DeLeon Realty in Palo Alto, Calif.
While many ski towns have spent years mourning the rise of corporate conglomerates swallowing mom-and-pop owners, a growing faction in Telluride was pushing in the opposite direction.
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