Budge
Budge verb - To change the place or position of.
Usage example: the bureau was so heavy that two people couldn't budge it
Set
Set verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.
Common collocations
| way | budge way | set way |
Both words in one sentence
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He also plays himself in a West Wing sketch (along with Martin Sheen and the other regulars) on Saturday Night Live: The cast and crew try to usher him out of the Oval Office set, but Al refuses to budge, pretending to ring up Putin on a prop phone.
Source: Useful Notes / Al Gore
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