Thesaurus results for SQUOOSHING

squooshing

verb

present participle of squoosh

as in squishing

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The result is an entire ocean’s worth of wind and waves all compressing together to get through what is a seriously small bottleneck.

— KC Baker, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026
The space between those points is the organization’s window for intervention, and AI is compressing it across a growing share of business processes.

— Jay Limburn, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026

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This is what a clever Fair food looks like, mashing classics together in a really simple way.

— Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2026
The idea of mashing avocado onto bread wasn’t new then—the Australian chef Bill Granger had been doing it since the 90s, and home cooks had surely arrived at the pairing on their own.

— Mary Holland, Air Mail, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of mashing

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The east-side neighbors going to court join two other communities who have filed lawsuits in hopes of squashing developers' plans to spend millions of dollars on data centers.

— Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 24 Aug. 2026
And Jason Momoa, who recently starred in the game-to-movie blockbuster A Minecraft Movie, appeared to be the best guy to put behind the sci-fi series’ big, bug-squashing hand cannons.

— Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026

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Houston will host the Kansas City Royals, owners of the fifth-worst record in baseball, and the Rangers will host the Boston Red Sox, a club on the verge of punching its own ticket to October.

— Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
The victim tackled Cunningham and started punching him, and took the gun.

— Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of punching

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Eventually, Reacher bests Amisha by shoving her out of a window to fall to the street below.

— Chris Klimek, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
Last month, Good Good Golf lost its partnership with Callaway and its title sponsorship of a PGA Tour event in the fallout over a video for a new driver that showed a man shoving to the ground a woman who was trying to touch the golf club.

— Jim Vertuno, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of shoving

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Instead of squeezing time together into a large family gathering, Marilyn and a small group of relatives are staying in London through Tuesday.

— Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026
The clinic adds that squeezing the lower legs helps veins return blood to the heart, and the therapy can be used on its own or alongside other treatments a healthcare provider recommends.

— Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026

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The Houthis descended from their stronghold in northern Yemen, taking over the capital of Sanaa in September 2014 and forcing the country's government into exile in Saudi Arabia.

— Tucker Reals, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
Despite a loss to Arlington Bowie, Arlington Lamar proved itself as a top competition, forcing the Volunteers into overtime.

— Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Sep. 2026

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