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squish

[skwish] / skwɪʃ /


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It turns out that it’s difficult to squish a sphere into a flat rectangle without some disfigurement, but the Mercator errors have finally led to pushback.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

When a beefy bad guy who was about to squish a normal-sized good guy received a crippling blow to the scrotum, I laughed.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

The full sensory experience of eating food is also important, she added — getting messy, using spoons, fingers and tiny fists to squish food and smear on a highchair and face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024

Little ones can squish their fingers in the mud and explore all the different textures and smells as part of sensory play.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

I squish my boneless octopus body down to its small-bag-of-chips size.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

Like the scene where Wade squishes his entire body mass into a thin stream of water so he can slip through a chain-link fence?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

It puffs up, squishes down, turns itself inside out.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023

Infinite density can be found inside a black hole, where gravity is so intense that it squishes matter into a mind-bogglingly small space called a singularity.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 26, 2023

Both Breyer and Roberts, whether you dismiss them as squishes or laud them as statesmen, believed in sitting down with the other side and hearing their best arguments.

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2022

She kneels down and squishes him in hugs.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech




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