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squirt

[skwurt] / skwɜrt /


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Marine experts believe that carpet sea squirt, formally named Didemnum vexillum, came from Japan.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Around the time, it was trendy for people to wear squirt toys shaped like zoo animals as necklaces or keychains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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

"A little squirt called Ollie Bogwhistle sneaked on me," Hortensia said.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

Improvements observed in mice do not necessarily mean that eating sea squirts or taking plasmalogen supplements will reverse aging in humans.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

“I had found my drink, my happy place,” said Benson, who over time perfected his order: seven pumps of chai concentrate, seven squirts of sugar-free vanilla syrup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

You can also add a few squirts of TJ’s Sriracha Sauce, just before adding the seasoning packet, for a spicy kick.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2025

To construct a house, the Vulcan II squirts out layer after layer of the house’s walls onto the base.

From NewsForKids.net ● May 10, 2024

She intended to steal only a few squirts.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

In a few seconds the CrossWave had squirted to its top speed of 55 mph and was skipping across the gentle swells in a blaring, brutalizing ecstasy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

After Willson Contreras and Lars Nootbaar greeted him with singles to put runners at the corners, Pozo squirted a two-out single over the infield to score pinch-runner Garrett Hampson for the go-ahead run.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025

Whipped cream squirted from an aerosol can is often called "skooshy cream" north of the border.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025

About the size of a banana, Peng’s squid squirted water and ink as it dangled from his pink and white jig.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2023

He grew accustomed to the uneasy octopus that lived inside him and squirted its inky tranquilizer on his past.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

For days before his PortaSplit arrived, he had resorted to squirting water on his face to keep cool at home.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

Frustrated locals have often staged protests around it, sometimes squirting tourists with water guns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Other proposed methods include squirting aerosols into the atmosphere or using microbubbles to make the ocean whiter.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

A team led by the University of Oxford has solved a mystery that has intrigued scientists for centuries: how does the squirting cucumber squirt?

From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024

We’d eat graveyard snow cones—lime, orange, grape, cherry mixed together—and pacos from the Crystal Pistol booth—seasoned beef in a cocoon of hot fry bread, the orange grease squirting and burning the insides of our cheeks.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth


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