as in squeeze
the act or process of reducing the size or volume of something by or as if by pressing
the tight squeezing of his hands on hers made her face turn red
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1
as in crushing
to apply external pressure on so as to force out the juice or contents of
kept squeezing the bottle until the ketchup squirted all over the table
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2
as in cramming
to fit (people or things) into a tight space
I think we can squeeze a bit more into the washing machine
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as in earning
to get with great difficulty
managed to squeeze a living by cleaning houses
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as in compressing
to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members together
squeezed the blanket until it fit into the box
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as in plucking
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
the mob squeezes all the local merchants by threatening violence
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Recent Examples of squeezing
Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
This could be done by either squeezing the regular season even tighter with more midweek fixtures or putting the Wembley final back a week.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Screenshots from an August 25 TikTok video of Zahra the dog squeezing onto a chair after the owner tries placing different items on it to keep her off.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
At the same time, cost pressures and changing consumer habits are squeezing margins.
—Steven Norton, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Row the dumbbell up towards your chest, squeezing your shoulder blades together.
—Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
There’s people cutting sandwiches, putting the sandwiches right to the camera, squeezing the juices.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
Bantin's post suggests the developer wasn't willing to compromise the port's quality by squeezing that content through the relatively narrow 400 MB/s bus of a physical Switch 2 card.
—Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
Returns intelligence gives retailers the ability to act with greater precision at a moment when one-size-fits-all policies erode margins and alienate consumers, driving up costs and squeezing already thin margins.
—Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
That could be due to tariffs squeezing automakers, disincentivizing them from giving discounts.
—Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
This could be done by either squeezing the regular season even tighter with more midweek fixtures or putting the Wembley final back a week.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Screenshots from an August 25 TikTok video of Zahra the dog squeezing onto a chair after the owner tries placing different items on it to keep her off.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
At the same time, cost pressures and changing consumer habits are squeezing margins.
—Steven Norton, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Row the dumbbell up towards your chest, squeezing your shoulder blades together.
—Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
There’s people cutting sandwiches, putting the sandwiches right to the camera, squeezing the juices.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
Bantin's post suggests the developer wasn't willing to compromise the port's quality by squeezing that content through the relatively narrow 400 MB/s bus of a physical Switch 2 card.
—Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
Returns intelligence gives retailers the ability to act with greater precision at a moment when one-size-fits-all policies erode margins and alienate consumers, driving up costs and squeezing already thin margins.
—Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for squeezing
Noun
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The result is a squeeze on the very mechanisms needed to fund mitigation, adaptation and resilience.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Both the governor and the secretary listed a combination of lower market prices for farm products plus rising fertilizer, machinery and labor costs as a severe squeeze on the farm economy.—
Cristina LaRue,
Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Even well-meaning regulation can have soul-destroying and industry-crushing consequences.—
David Doty,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Electric trucks from Volvo Trucks, supported by material transport, are enabling fully emission-free operations from selective gutting through to concrete crushing, materials processing, and transport.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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There is a clear risk for streamers cramming sports into their portfolios.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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While the airlines are undeniably cramming us all in regardless of our waist size, for passengers who truly don’t fit in a standard economy seat, policies like Southwest’s help not only them but their fellow travelers be safer and more comfortable onboard, and that’s a good thing.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Notably, that was considerably more than his boss was earning as a House member, $174,000.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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The craft seller at a roadside market is earning her independence.—
Daniel Scheffler,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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But Grok’s issues are not the result of a novel algorithm behaving in novel ways so much as an algorithm compressing and refracting all of the worst tendencies of the internet in very predictable forms.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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Unlike regular audio formats like MP3 and AAC, which remove certain details while compressing an audio file, the lossless format preserves every detail from the original recording.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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When not plucking away at a keyboard, Madison teaches yoga and mountain bikes with her two Australian shepherds, Cholla and Poppy, through Missoula's Rattlesnake Wilderness.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
15 Sep. 2025
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Brother Dusk detonates explosives that shatter the cryonic chamber of Cleon clones, bodies raining down in blood and glass, before plucking a single embryo from the wreckage to bait Demerzel’s deepest programming.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Now, major Hollywood unions and progressive groups are pushing back, accusing ABC and its affiliates of censorship and demanding a boycott of Disney properties.—
Amanda Castro
Shane Croucher
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Even as Brazil slows deforestation, more than 13% of the Amazon is gone, pushing one of the planet’s largest carbon sinks closer to a tipping point.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Bieber wore a pair of white briefs, a silver necklace and a single compression sock, and tagged his pals in the post, using three pink double heart emojis as the caption.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
11 Sep. 2025
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If TPUs offer similar performance at better economics, Nvidia risks margin compression.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Squeezing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squeezing. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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