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squash

[skwosh, skwawsh] / skwɒʃ, skwɔʃ /


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Since buying the Dodgers, he has invested in European soccer, women’s hockey and basketball, squash and auto racing.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

"It was just so easy to squash him up and reform him as a dog, or a submarine, or a bird or anything," Lord said.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

My boss believes me but also said me and Mary need to squash our beef, but I didn’t even know we had a beef.

From MarketWatch Aug. 29, 2026

When he played squash at the Harvard Club in Manhattan, he ran there carrying his racket.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

The beautiful woman moved a bouquet of calla lilies out of the way and placed it over a basket full of fresh tomatoes, squash, and chiles to make room for us.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

“If this thing falls on me and kills me, it’s gonna be like, ‘Giant-squash squashes squash-professor,’” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 10, 2025

“Time bends. Space is boundless. It squashes a man’s ego. I feel lonely.”

From New York Times May 15, 2024

The gravitational pull also squashes the spacetime, altering its shape depending on how it's observed.

From Science Daily Feb. 21, 2024

The Southampton farm has entered the record books for the largest mosaic created from squashes.

From BBC Oct. 23, 2023

As another example, archaeologists originally assumed that Mexican corn, beans, and squashes reached the southeastern United States by the most direct route via northeastern Mexico and eastern Texas.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The factory that AFP visited in Hunan province's Pingjiang turns out nearly 700 tonnes per day of the spongy, red-coloured strips, which look like squashed French fries covered in oil.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

It is not just squashed droppings the volunteers are looking for.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

It won’t surprise you that nowadays our daydreaming time is shrinking, one more thing squashed by social media.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

Kirby compared the situation to the pandemic in 2020, when a global shutdown squashed demand and travel.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 28, 2026

My fury might have been squashed thanks to Dad’s skills of fixing Fig’s DVD with some glass cleaner, cloth, and toothpaste, but the damage was done.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Instead Zverev pounced, breaking Shelton’s big serve in the first game of the match and squashing his momentum on a humid afternoon.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

And he hadn’t allowed more than one baserunner in any inning, squashing the scrappy Rays’ ability to manufacture a run.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

Concerns about AI squashing software company earnings turning into a run on private-credit funds lending to software firms.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 12, 2026

The retired farmer had queued up on November 29 at a launch of Bardella's new book in the southern town of Moissac, squashing an egg on his head when he reached him.

From Barron's Jan. 9, 2026

Root spat out the butt of his cigar, squashing it comprehensively beneath his boot heel.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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