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In the PHB, page 195, it is stated in the rules of shoving that:

If you're able to make multiple attacks with the attack action, this attack replace one of them.

Because of this, combined with the ability to break up your movement on your turn, could someone shove a creature with their first attack, move up, then shove again?

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Yes

As you said, the rules for shoving say:

If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them.

Since the shove only replaces one of the attacks, you then have enough actions left from the other attacks to shove again. Of course, this assumes that you have enough movement to move 5 feet forward to get into range to shove the creature again.

If you have attack(s) and movement available, then you can absolutely shove multiple times.

This argument is essentially the same one that you can read with regards to grappling in this Q&A.

Unofficial ruling

Jeremy Crawford, lead rules designer for D&D, agrees with this ruling (even including the very similar case of Grappling):

If you take the Attack action and have multiple attacks, you can replace any of them with a grapple/shove.

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    \$\begingroup\$ Although I totally agree with your point and the ruling, this once again points out Crawford's maddening habit of almost but not quite answering the question by way of vague wording. "Replace any of them" could as easily mean "replace any one of them" as "replace any or all of them". \$\endgroup\$
    – keithcurtis
    Commented Jan 30, 2018 at 4:58
  • \$\begingroup\$ @keithcurtis and probably should mean that. Those are all attacks. \$\endgroup\$
    – NotArch
    Commented Jan 30, 2018 at 12:55

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