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“The Sikh community within trucking is really being squished in the middle of a battle between the state of California and the federal government,” said Kaur, whose father was a truck owner and operator.

Upon being told that her great grandmother had died, she seemed to want clarity and asserted with partial relief, “Great Gran is dead . . . but not squished.”

"By squeezing -- silencing the noise -- you effectively use quantum mechanical interactions to 'squish' that meter stick, effectively creating finer gradations and allowing you to measure smaller things more precisely."

On the other hand, people who are a little bit below that level, they might feel a bit squished between bottom-up and top-down pressure.

"When they are small, they kind of look like an elephant squished into a little yolk sack."