squash
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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
New sports remained a hit for fans, who scooped up all available tickets to softball, lacrosse, flag football and squash during the second drop, LA28 reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Add the squash, onion and a pinch of kosher salt.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Then Ma put on the boiled potatoes and cabbage and meat, the baked beans, the hot johnny-cake and the baked Hubbard squash, and she poured the tea.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
“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
A Tim Burton-inspired mosaic made with more than 10,000 pumpkins and squashes has set a new Guinness World Record.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2023
The pumpkins and the squashes were piled in orange and yellow and green heaps in the attic’s corners.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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
Desai said, as seeming moments of recovery in the past year or so were squashed by the L.A. wildfires, then last summer’s immigration crackdown and associated civil unrest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2026
They’re scouting whose AI strategies should be amplified after generating a great return, and what wastefulness should be squashed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
If Percy charged to help Bob, he would get squashed like an ant.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
Hill also said she was "really frustrated" with Hampshire police for not squashing the false claims and confirming she does not work for them anymore.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 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
“You had a whole handful, you were squashing them around. You were just about to pop them into your mouth when I caught you.”
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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