mashing

present participle of mash
1
as in squeezing
to apply external pressure on so as to force out the juice or contents of this press can mash 10 bushels of apples at a time

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2
as in crushing
to cause to become a pulpy mass mash the ripe banana before adding it to the mixture

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Recent Examples of mashing The left-handed slugger was mashing balls into the stratosphere, bashing nine to set the tone against Contreras. Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026 Rooker, 31, is known as one of the most durable players in the league, having played in all 162 games last season and mashing at least 30 home runs in each of the last three seasons. Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026 More often, the series borrows from the overall feeling of Dippold’s inspirations, mashing up and remixing the obsessions of a lifelong horror fan. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 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 The 20-year-old infielder is also capable of mashing against both right- and left-handed pitching. Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 2 June 2026 Georgia Tech appeared to be mashing its way to the Super Regional with ease. Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 1 June 2026 Lego’s classic button-mashing combat is spiced up with dodge and parry prompts to evade gunfire and counter incoming attacks. Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 26 May 2026 In the video, Mariko baked a few salmon fillets and boiled some rice before assembling the easy dish, which involved mashing the salmon into bits with a fork and mixing it into the rice along with Kewpie mayonnaise (a Japanese brand of the condiment), soy sauce and hot sauce. Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 26 May 2026
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Verb
  • McGurk argued that, if the return of the hostages was the only way to end the war, then publicly squeezing Israel to protect civilians could paradoxically prolong the fighting, resulting in more Palestinian deaths.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • De la Fuente’s forwards press aggressively, while centre-backs Pau Cubarsi and Aymeric Laporte hold a high defensive line, squeezing the pitch and pinning their opponents back.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 20 July 2026
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  • As the record flips from the rushes of lust to crushing emotional collapse, the tone shifts.
    Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026
  • Day 2 Observations Dallas came out firing this weekend, crushing the Atlanta team in a 4-0 sweep where really only one of the four games was competitive.
    Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
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  • Hold the skin taut, position the epilator at a 90-degree angle, and move it slowly against the direction of hair growth without pressing too hard.
    Iman Balagam, Vogue, 17 July 2026
  • Increasingly immobilized by zero-sum politics, the federal government remains powerful in theory but is losing much of its capacity to solve many of the nation’s most pressing problems.
    John Eger, Mercury News, 17 July 2026

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“Mashing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mashing. Accessed 21 Jul. 2026.

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