as in to hammer out
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Recent Examples of square away
The incident forces Audrey back into her childhood home in suburban New Jersey to help take care of her, and into Eli’s orbit to help square away the insurance information and repair bills.
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Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
Despite my best efforts to neatly square away all of my things inside my carry-on bag or checked luggage, my suitcase eventually ends up looking like a scene out of Twisters.
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Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Sep. 2025
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Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
Despite my best efforts to neatly square away all of my things inside my carry-on bag or checked luggage, my suitcase eventually ends up looking like a scene out of Twisters.
—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for square away
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Unions and the Newsom administration hammered out new agreements, which included several provisions to help cut down on California’s employee compensation costs.
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Kushner has joined fellow peace envoy Steve Witkoff in Doha, Qatar, a country acting as mediator between the two sides, to hammer out a resolution.
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And, more broadly, country-level plans that lay out investable climate projects across different countries received top billing at different forums.
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And so the goal that lawmakers have stated for this bill and that a lot of the provisions lay out is to tackle some of the bottlenecks and some of the problems that have kept us from providing the level of housing supply that the country needs over time.
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Prosecutors detailed at least four games in which the defendants are alleged to have schemed to have Beasley manipulate individual game stats for the benefit of gamblers.
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As to honest services wire fraud, it is based on Beasley allegedly scheming to defraud the Bucks and the NBA of his honest services.
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Current satellite data measures ozone separately in the lower, middle, and upper stratosphere, and model simulations help scientists work out the causes of any changes in these layers.
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Pinkerton is still working out how that inspiration will play out in the next round of songs, but likes the theme of finding light even in the darkest of places.
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Chalsma’s unstinting vociferousness, which sometimes seems over the top, leaves little doubt as to who shaped Coriolanus’ martial character.
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The restaurant originated in Thessaloniki in 2015 and now brings contemporary Greek bistronomy to Santorini with a menu shaped by seasonality, local producers and fishermen.
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Future projects being planned in the central city for delivery over the next five years will include other office-to-apartment conversions and new housing built from the ground up.
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Lawmakers plan to direct the Department of Finance to present the Legislature with options for how to do that.
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Rather than designing a luxury escape filled with domestic gadgets, the architects have shaped a home that encourages slowing down and reconnecting with nature.
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The new educational panels were designed to replace ones put up in 2010 that told the story of how nine slaves lived in the home along with George and Martha Washington in the 1790s, when Philadelphia was briefly the nation’s capital.
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This has distorted access not only to concert tickets but also to everyday services such as train ticket reservations.
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Taylor Swift joins Lainey Wilson for a surprise performance at Sports Illustrated and Tight End University's Tight Ends & Friends concert in Nashville on June 23.
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“Square away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/square%20away. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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