Synonyms for elbowing
el·bow·ing

Princeton's WordNet

1. elbowingnoun

   jostling with the elbows

   "elbowing is a foul in basketball"

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1. • Jostle

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1. Conan Doyle:

   There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

2. Deshawn Yeldell:

   Even tho’ he struggled with life he kept elbowing his way through the crowd of envy, even tho’ it felt like the weight of the world was on his shoulders he would never allow his head to hang to the ground; in a world lost in misery. -MillYentei

3. Arthur Conan Doyle:

   Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

4. Ygal Arounian:

   EBay has been losing share in e-commerce for many years now, amazon( AMZN) has done a good job of displacing them and elbowing them out.

5. Daniel Pearlstein:

   The medical marijuana industry in Canada is in a state of competitive capitalism, everyone is elbowing for a position, but everyone needs everyone else to succeed up to the point where supply and demand reach an equilibrium, and then the players can start battling it out.