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squirt

[skwurt] / skwɜrt /


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At highway speeds, the sedan’s sharp reflexes and deep reserves of squirt create significant moral temptation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

A squirt of dish soap, a cup of hot water, a few pulses to loosen the worst of it—then a quick pass with a brush.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

Unlike the sea squirt, both the lamprey and the frog produced many more versions of proteins from individual signaling output genes.

From Science Daily • Feb. 4, 2026

“It wasn’t totally unusual for kids to be creeping around our house with big squirt guns,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

At first we’d try to act casual, as if our mouths weren’t full of water, but it was pretty hard convincing someone you weren’t going to squirt water on them when you couldn’t talk.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge




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