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Recent Examples of jostle
Navan is jostling for market share against expense and travel startups like fellow Disruptor Ramp, TravelPerk, and Brex, as well as incumbents like SAP Concur and American Express Global Business Travel.
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Ellen Sheng, CNBC, 10 June 2025
The candidates often dodged direct answers to moderators’ questions and instead jostled with each other.
—Jared Gans, The Hill, 5 June 2025
Her grammar consisted of triangles, the razor-blade shape, and rhombuses, sometimes in which quadrilaterals—a color-rich, playful visualization of Euclidean geometry—jostled with figuration.
—Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 June 2025
The Times pointed to Claire Boucher, the musician known as Grimes and mother of three of Musk’s children, jostling for control of their 5 year-old son, X.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025
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Ellen Sheng, CNBC, 10 June 2025
The candidates often dodged direct answers to moderators’ questions and instead jostled with each other.
—Jared Gans, The Hill, 5 June 2025
Her grammar consisted of triangles, the razor-blade shape, and rhombuses, sometimes in which quadrilaterals—a color-rich, playful visualization of Euclidean geometry—jostled with figuration.
—Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 June 2025
The Times pointed to Claire Boucher, the musician known as Grimes and mother of three of Musk’s children, jostling for control of their 5 year-old son, X.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jostle
Verb
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Why some tattoo artists push back against AI tattoo machines Of course, not everyone is excited about this change.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
14 July 2025
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The change, which was approved by commissioners and signed into law by Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, pushes the upcoming November 2025 general election to November 2026.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
14 July 2025
Verb
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Marlene alleged her son grabbed and started to squeeze her throat.—
Christine Pelisek,
People.com,
11 July 2025
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Kalvin Phillips squeezes a pass through the gap and into Omari Hutchinson, taking three Forest players out of the game.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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“Jostle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jostle. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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