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Recent Examples of mashed
This hearty winter veggie conveniently is always enjoyed cooked—upping beta carotene bioavailability—and is excellent roasted, mashed, or pureed to be added to stews, curries, baked goods, casseroles, pastas, and more.
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Christina Manian, Health, 6 Feb. 2026
Grisham mashed last year, and all of the numbers back up that his season was no fluke.
—Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
The young biker leans back and smiles at Gately and gives an affable shrug and blatts away, a halter top’s tits mashed against his back.
—Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
The distillery describes it as milled, mashed, fermented, distilled, and aged on site, and highlights its use of a 500L Alembic copper pot still.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
Once cut or mashed, avocados will turn blackish-brown in the blink of an eye.
—Kirsten Nunez, Martha Stewart, 10 Jan. 2026
In a medium bowl mash half the beans with a potato masher or pastry blender until well mashed.
—Holly Riordan, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2026
Butter, cream, and sour cream are mashed into the potatoes before being dressed up with bacon, scallions, salt, pepper, and lots of cheese.
—Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 6 Jan. 2026
Foo Bar brings back the nostalgic arcade of your youth, mashed with a cocktail bar that isn’t to be missed.
—Charlotte Observer, 18 Dec. 2025
Christina Manian, Health, 6 Feb. 2026
Grisham mashed last year, and all of the numbers back up that his season was no fluke.
—Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
The young biker leans back and smiles at Gately and gives an affable shrug and blatts away, a halter top’s tits mashed against his back.
—Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
The distillery describes it as milled, mashed, fermented, distilled, and aged on site, and highlights its use of a 500L Alembic copper pot still.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
Once cut or mashed, avocados will turn blackish-brown in the blink of an eye.
—Kirsten Nunez, Martha Stewart, 10 Jan. 2026
In a medium bowl mash half the beans with a potato masher or pastry blender until well mashed.
—Holly Riordan, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2026
Butter, cream, and sour cream are mashed into the potatoes before being dressed up with bacon, scallions, salt, pepper, and lots of cheese.
—Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 6 Jan. 2026
Foo Bar brings back the nostalgic arcade of your youth, mashed with a cocktail bar that isn’t to be missed.
—Charlotte Observer, 18 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mashed
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As the continents sheared and twisted unevenly, local forces squeezed together thin ribbons of crust and popped them up like geological meerkats, isolating and slicing them off.—
Evan Howell,
Scientific American,
4 Feb. 2026
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Walmart had become the poster child of the big bad corporation that underpaid its workers, squeezed its suppliers and tore at the fabric of small-town America.—
Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
3 Feb. 2026
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The result is that all the protons and electrons in the star are crushed into neutrons, and the mass of the incredibly dense object remains comparable to the sun, but the size is comparable to a city, as explained by NASA.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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When Heathcliff, a foundling, discovers that Cathy Earnshaw, the daughter of the impoverished Yorkshire lord who’s taken him in, has played a prank on him by putting eggs in his beds to be crushed, the boy plunges his fingers into the slippery puddle of yolk and albumen left behind.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
9 Feb. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Mashed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mashed. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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