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squash

[skwosh, skwawsh] / skwɒʃ, skwɔʃ /


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Aerobic activities included brisk walking, running, jogging, swimming, cycling, tennis, squash, strenuous outdoor work, and stair climbing.

From Science Daily Jun. 12, 2026

But a legion of opponents are determined to squash the celebration.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

The decision will prevent branded drug makers from using dubious patent infringement lawsuits to squash low-cost competition.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

In the fields beyond, a squash farmer trudged home, a sack slung over his shoulder heavy with his harvest.

From Barron's Apr. 22, 2026

Even though he’s for-serious lying—hello? there are no squash growing in glacier ice—I like his stories.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins

“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

All you’ll need are two medium acorn squashes, cooked quinoa or wild rice, fresh or dried cranberries, chopped pecans or walnuts, diced onions, garlic, cinnamon, thyme, olive oil, salt and pepper.

From Salon Nov. 23, 2024

“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 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

Instead, it is a vast bronze creature, full of men squashed in on top of each other.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

They’re scouting whose strategies should be amplified after generating a great return, and what wastefulness should be squashed.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 18, 2026

Why did I think, “Oh nah, it’s cool. We squashed it.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 30, 2026

Supporters say looser schedules centred around practical projects and outdoor activities help nourish creativity that is squashed by the national curriculum.

From Barron's Dec. 30, 2025

But he had not imagined that they would smell so bad, Charles the plump one wearing a squashed hat and Charles the redhead with his chin covered in ginger hair.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Or the person next to the window who keeps getting up to go to the toilet, or the person in front who has suddenly put their seat back, squashing your knees.

From BBC Sep. 28, 2024

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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