thrust on/upon
phrasal verb
thrust on/upon; thrusting on/upon; thrusts on/upon
: to force (someone) to have or accept (something)
Fame was thrust upon her.
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Others that are being thrust upon us, however, are beginning to feel disorienting or and borderline intrusive.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Moody’s predicted that should the weight of the full, 50-percent duties be thrust upon the country’s producers, India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth could slow, contracting by 0.3 percent from its 6.3-percent forecast for fiscal 2025-2026.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 8 Aug. 2025
Taissa did a phenomenal job portraying both wanting to follow her heart and fighting against the societal pressures and eventually her acceptance of what path she was being thrust upon.
—Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025
While Vulcan only used two BE-4s, the seven on New Glenn produce 3.85 million pounds of thrust on liftoff, which makes the rocket more than twice as powerful than SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and more powerful than ULA’s Atlas V rocket.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2025
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Moody’s predicted that should the weight of the full, 50-percent duties be thrust upon the country’s producers, India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth could slow, contracting by 0.3 percent from its 6.3-percent forecast for fiscal 2025-2026.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 8 Aug. 2025
Taissa did a phenomenal job portraying both wanting to follow her heart and fighting against the societal pressures and eventually her acceptance of what path she was being thrust upon.
—Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025
While Vulcan only used two BE-4s, the seven on New Glenn produce 3.85 million pounds of thrust on liftoff, which makes the rocket more than twice as powerful than SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and more powerful than ULA’s Atlas V rocket.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2025
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“Thrust on/upon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thrust%20on%2Fupon. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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