1
: marked by ambition, energy, enterprise, and initiative
2
: marked by tactless forwardness or officious intrusiveness
Examples of pushing in a Sentence
among the young associates at the law firm, he was unmistakably the most pushing
the sort of sycophantic, pushing man on the make that everyone loves to hate
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Musk plunged into a controversy of his own making after tweeting and deleting a post pushing baseless allegations about the attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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Hamza Shaban, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
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Hamza Shaban, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
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“Pushing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pushing. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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