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squeeze

noun as in pressure, crushing

verb as in try to get money out of

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Cautious Black Friday shoppers are trying to squeeze the most value out of their money this year.

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A spate of new model launches by rivals has also squeezed its market share.

But Jean Simard, president and chief executive of the Aluminium Association of Canada, told the BBC that Americans are starting to feel squeezed as their stockpiles of the metal deplete.

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On an individual level, Yee says, people may opt in to occasional busywork to give their brains a break or simply work a little less instead of squeezing every drop of AI-enhanced productivity.

She can predict someone’s destiny by squeezing their hand, the party trick Christopher Walken did in “The Dead Zone.”

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

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