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# How to pronounce "pushing down" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/pʌʃɪngdɒwn/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **pu·shin·gdown**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "pushing down" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "perhaps to cause real trouble. I I would give the example of of Africa where where to be very crude and basic about it, you have fundamentalist Islam pushing down and you have evangelical Christianity pushing up. And in the book I went to the front line in Nigeria between these two towns of Kano and Jos. It is that you drive along it and that you you will find mosques mosque church church and they battling almost all the"
- **Watch at 3:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AXSEjq_K-w&t=232s)

### Example 2
> "look at Short rates in this country they have come down and they have come down substantially I think that the Q QE exercise has helped when it comes to pushing down the entire yield curve and that has been uh that has been helpful and we have a number of times in the past say said that in addition to buying government debt we can do various things to expand our balance sheet so so by far"
- **Watch at 7:17**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgratIUqloI&t=437s)

### Example 3
> "put a serious proposal on the table uh it seems to be sustainable in the long run but there are fiscal gaps in the short run uh and that uh so they are uh pushing down the pensions uh for Next Generation but there is a short-term issue that has to be resolved and that is about how to fill those fiscal gaps so we're doing work on that and the institutions are talking to the Greeks uh that may take a couple of weeks but we'll keep pushing"
- **Watch at 3:54**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5BnZrfIdLs&t=234s)

### Example 4
*Accent: US*
> "pushing down towards the actual center of the earth, right? versus the muscle force, my biceps break eye and my brachiialis muscles that are trying to"
- **Watch at 3:26**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ5Sm2NFuGM&t=206s)

### Example 5
*Accent: US*
> "pushing down on us naturally it would want to push our muscles like this right so because of that we have muscles that are constantly helping us to maintain"
- **Watch at 22:09**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH_Eem-VBZg&t=1329s)

### Example 6
*Accent: US*
> "pushing down on the heliosphere when we leave the purple potato or the lick i could call it the lac um it will expand not very much because"
- **Watch at 13:45**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAe8OXpSBNk&t=825s)

### Example 7
*Accent: US*
> "Pushing down on a pedal would shorten the cables on one side and lengthen them on the other."
- **Watch at 4:54**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7H8TlkBC4&t=294s)

### Example 8
*Accent: US*
> "pushing down that Peak through storage through other kinds of things the other thing about prices moving like that is prices moving like that is going to make"
- **Watch at 37:08**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqn0YdeO9tg&t=2228s)

### Example 9
> "It simply gets pushed down to a level below that at which other people can see it. This pushing down of our true self takes a lot of work. Think about this. When you're having a conversation with somebody, you're doing a lot of things at once."
- **Watch at 7:42**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI6kObHls-4&t=462s)

### Example 10
*Accent: US*
> "So the soleus pushup can be described very simply as if you're sitting down with your knee bent at approximately right angle, like a square corner, and pushing up, or I should say lifting your heel while pushing down on your toe and contracting the calf muscle as it were, and then lowering the heel and then in lifting that heel again, lowering the heel, lifting the heel again, each one of those is what they call a soleus pushup."
- **Watch at 8:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Ss8sTbFBY&t=528s)


## How to Pronounce "pushing down"

- **Syllables**: pu · shin · gdown
- **IPA**: `/pʌʃɪngdɒwn/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Pronunciations

[pushing](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pushing), [down](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/down)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “pushing down”?
“pushing down” is pronounced /pʌʃɪngdɒwn/ (pu · shin · gdown). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “pushing down”?
“pushing down” has 3 syllables: pu · shin · gdown.

### How can I hear “pushing down” used in real sentences?
This page has 15 real-world video examples of “pushing down” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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