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squeegee

[skwee-jee, skwee-jee] / ˈskwi dʒi, skwiˈdʒi /
NOUN
mop
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The pieces, all individually crafted, often require more than one squeegee pass.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

“Poppy,” a multicolored abstract from 1995 created using the German artist’s signature squeegee gesture is expected to sell for around $15 million.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 9, 2026

"For a brief second, I thought there was someone with a squeegee mop cleaning the outside of the window. I turned around, and it was the bear's wet nose rubbing against the window."

From BBC Apr. 8, 2026

Edan McPherson dips a long squeegee into a pool of melted chocolate, draws the rubber blade across the coarse mesh.

From New York Times Sep. 1, 2023

The man tucked the squeegee and chamois in his back pant pocket, picked up the bucket and brush, and headed toward the van.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

The players finally re-emerged for warm-ups about one hour and 40 minutes later, and even then the restart was delayed further as stadium personnel used squeegees to remove standing water off the pitch.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

Others have hit the streets, selling flowers and brandishing squeegees to wash car windows.

From New York Times Feb. 12, 2024

Across the way underneath the stadium near the visitors’ clubhouse, others with squeegees worked to push the water-hail mixture into drains.

From Seattle Times Jun. 29, 2023

Inside downtown L.A.’s Union Station, a crew of workers used squeegees to push water toward several pumps after a central passageway flooded with several inches of water.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 31, 2021

The tar was made hot and applied to the surfaces with rubber squeegees and then sanded.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

Bruce Lee had so much of it, it practically had to be squeegeed off the walls whenever he was in a room.

From Seattle Times Jul. 22, 2021

The bleachers also are squeegeed, so, as Percival said, the crew doesn’t “use all the towels in D.C.”

From Washington Post Jul. 31, 2018

Such a show’s image-object godfather might be German painter Gerhard Richter, whose work alternates between fuzzy photographic realism and blurry, squeegeed abstractions.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2016

Anyone with the mildest case of synaesthesia will have a jarring time of it with some of these paintings, where the same words – Blah Blah Blah – come squeegeed in cacophonously multicoloured arrays.

From The Guardian Oct. 13, 2012

The windshield of the SUV was filthy, smeared with dead hugs, even though Dad had squeegeed it when they last stopped to refuel.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Rogers climbed into his pickup truck after squeegeeing his windshield.

From Washington Times Aug. 4, 2023

Scott was skeptical about the new plan to ban squeegeeing in certain areas.

From Seattle Times Jan. 9, 2023

The planned enforcement action marks a major turning point in the city’s approach to squeegeeing.

From Seattle Times Jan. 9, 2023

But by squeegeeing the layers separately one right after the other, the researchers laid down a better network of donors and acceptors at up to 30 m per minute.

From Science Magazine Nov. 10, 2022

In a mirror image above, at least forty people dangle from the ceiling by harnesses, squeegeeing off the already pristine dome ceiling.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera




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