Thesaurus results for SQUOOSHES

squooshes

verb

present tense third-person singular of squoosh

as in bears (down on)

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Luckily, this deal squashes that qualm by knocking over $300 from the sticker shocker!

— Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 6 July 2026
Chicken, bacon, and ranch might as well be the holy trio that squashes all fights and satisfies every hangry complaint.

— Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 3 Mar. 2026

Definition of squashes

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Being an 80% keyboard, the MQ80 has the exact same number as tenkeyless, but IQUNIX compresses the layout, shifting the arrow keys, delete, home, end, page up and page down and others to the right.

— Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 21 July 2026
That's a fundamental disagreement about the future of the sport, and this early opening date compresses the number of days available for the two sides to find a compromise.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of compresses

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The government has offered cash incentives to those willing to leave and pressures others to give up legal efforts by holding them in detention.

— Cindy Carcamo, Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2026
If a company pressures you into signing a contract before evaluating other options, that’s a red flag.

— Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 3 July 2026

Definition of pressures

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Created by Chicago painter Nathaniel Mary Quinn, the image mashes up caricatures of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood into a glorious grotesquerie that channels the colorful glam-trash aesthetics of the band’s late-’70s phase.

— Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026
The Nike Air Max Joga Bonito R9 mashes up the boot Ronaldo wore for the 1998 World Cup with the Air Max 95.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 22 June 2026

Definition of mashes

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As the officer is pinned down, one person repeatedly punches her in the head while another appears to strike her with an unidentified object before a second officer intervenes.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
Plus, the contrast stitching throughout both the top and shorts gives it a polished look that punches well above its $37 price tag.

— Jill Layton, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026

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