To press
Examples
Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority [of Christians] are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances.
Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it-whole-heartedly-and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.
It's difficult to press oil out of a rock.