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Recent Examples of squooshWant to know what a stunning defeat sounds like? Squishing and squooshing.—Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 8 Sep. 2017
Even if revelations of this nature did have an impact on voter preferences, a high percentage of early ballots cast could work to compress the window for late-breaking developments to concurrently shift outcomes, if at all.
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Claire Murphy,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
Batch processing tools handle multiple files at once, including converting, compressing, or encrypting PDFs.
The league has the power to squash the little guy.
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Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
30 Mar. 2026
The decision marked the first time in tournament history that the final weeks of the college basketball season would not be played, squashing Atlanta’s plans to host the Final Four.
The Rockets are a team that lost its starting point guard (Fred VanVleet) at the start of the year while the Knicks brought back and built upon the exact same core that punched the franchise’s first ticket to the conference finals in the last quarter-century.
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Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
1 Apr. 2026
Manning allegedly punched and kicked Hartman in the face and torso, scratched her, choked her and grabbed her by the hair and slammed her against the floor and wall.
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Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
31 Mar. 2026
If unhelpful naysayers shove their preferences onto you, just brush them off.
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Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Mar. 2026
With Dylan Larkin in the box, Noah Cates put the Flyers ahead by three goals by shoving a loose puck over the goal line on the power play with less than four minutes to play in the second.
House rebels view the attempt to squeeze the SAVE America Act into reconciliation, a restrictive budget process that requires all language to have a direct fiscal impact, as capitulation and want to see the entire bill, including its mandates on voter ID and proof of citizenship, signed into law.
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David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Mar. 2026
Priced at just £600, the 13-inch Neo squeezes many of the MacBook Air’s best features into a device that is far more affordable.