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squeeze

noun as in pressure, crushing

verb as in try to get money out of

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“It kind of felt to me that I had squeezed everything out of the lemon. There was nothing left,” Robitaille said.

The trio hadn’t yet made it to “The Official Release Party of a Showgirl,” but they hoped to squeeze it in Sunday along with a “Gilmore Girls” anniversary event at the Grove.

Johnson, squeezed into a wig so tight we get a vicarious headache, has pumped up his deltoids to nearly reach his prosthetic cauliflower ears.

Universities are facing a fierce squeeze in Scottish government funding, now down to less than a quarter of their revenue.

From BBC

In an email sent to all employees, Mr Gould said ZSL had already tightened budgets, frozen non-essential recruitment, and squeezed spending, but, he wrote, "we need to go further".

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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