squish
Example Sentences
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“I’m seeing a lot of roles where it’s like three jobs squished into one,” Rand said.
“The Sikh community within trucking is really being squished in the middle of a battle between the state of California and the federal government,” said Kaur, whose father was a truck owner and operator.
From Los Angeles Times
Upon being told that her great grandmother had died, she seemed to want clarity and asserted with partial relief, “Great Gran is dead . . . but not squished.”
"By squeezing -- silencing the noise -- you effectively use quantum mechanical interactions to 'squish' that meter stick, effectively creating finer gradations and allowing you to measure smaller things more precisely."
From Science Daily
On the other hand, people who are a little bit below that level, they might feel a bit squished between bottom-up and top-down pressure.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
