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Recent Examples of mash
Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2025
Homemade versions almost always skew watery, more like soup than a thick, smooth mash.
—Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2025
Then peel and mash them with a fork until smooth.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Toast until lightly crisp, mash a ripe avocado with a fork, and spread it evenly across the bread.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2025
Homemade versions almost always skew watery, more like soup than a thick, smooth mash.
—Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
Taking a cue from French onion soup, this casserole takes all those iconic flavors and mashes them up with rice and meatballs.
—Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2025
Then peel and mash them with a fork until smooth.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mash
Noun
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For years, Canari, a professional piragua driver, made a living transporting visitors, including journalists, to Bajo Chiquito to see how the community was coping under a crush of migrants who arrived daily by the hundreds, and at times, thousands.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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Who was your first celeb crush?—
Julie Jordan,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The polls had him on top for months, and his decision to focus his mayoral campaign on cost-of-living issues proved to be the right one in a city where residents are increasingly squeezed between growing rents and ever costlier public services.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Aid is declining and rising debt is squeezing public budgets.—
Obiageli Ezekwesili,
semafor.com,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Here, traditional saa paper is made by hand from the bark of mulberry trees: soaked, pulped, and pressed into delicate sheets embedded with local flowers and leaves.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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There is enough current in the lakes to float logs, and there was pulping activity somewhere above us.—
Robeson Bailey,
Outdoor Life,
11 June 2025
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Then there’s the carrot and squash puree, essentially mashed potatoes without the potatoes, but with the cream and butter.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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Common confirmed the beef was squashed from his side from that point forward and compared Joe’s intervention to a scene straight out of a movie.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Mash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mash. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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