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Noun
But the end of colonial rule galvanized a new frontier spirit around booze, with Americans shunning the sherry, port, and brandy favored by the stiff Europeans, and instead leaning into their own hooch created by a mash of whatever grains were on hand.—Charlie Campbell, Time, 25 May 2026 The starter mash goes through a two-stage fermentation process, lasting up to 90 days.—New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026
Verb
On top of that, the game didn't require me to do much else other than mash the square button.—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 8 June 2026 Severance star Zach Cherry hit the Deadline Studio at SXSW London this week with director Jason James to discuss genre-mashing romcom-thriller-noir All Night Wrong which premiered at the festival.—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for mash
Mathieu Lewis-Rolland / Getty Images The tank was designed to hold 900,000 gallons of a hazardous chemical known as white liquor, a chemical brew that contains sodium hydroxide, sodium sulfide and disodium carbonate and is used in the paper-pulping process, officials have said.
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Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
31 May 2026
The proprietary alkaline pulping method used to produce its lyocell is cleaner and more efficient than traditional chemical approaches, lowering the environmental footprint from the start while improving production efficiency.