squirt
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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
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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
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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
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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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