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Recent Examples of squish
Ever since, the lanternflies have swarmed urban regions in the Northeast, while wildlife experts have encouraged people who come across them to squish them immediately to further prevent their spread.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 9 Feb. 2026
High school coaching also taught him to be flexible, to understand that athletes weren’t square cogs meant to squish into his round wheel.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
Roast marshmallows over a campfire and squish them between graham crackers with a bit of chocolate.
—Elisa Cinelli, Parents, 22 Dec. 2025
His stories have more sway and squish to them.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 9 Feb. 2026
High school coaching also taught him to be flexible, to understand that athletes weren’t square cogs meant to squish into his round wheel.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
Roast marshmallows over a campfire and squish them between graham crackers with a bit of chocolate.
—Elisa Cinelli, Parents, 22 Dec. 2025
His stories have more sway and squish to them.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for squish
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But the window that Pawlikowski chooses for Fatherland is defiantly compact, a stretch of time that the director compresses even more to place the suicide of Erika’s brother Klaus, which happened in the south of France two months before, within the space of the trip.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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Anything that compresses operating margin compresses the cash flow bondholders are lending against.—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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Want to know what a stunning defeat sounds like? Squishing and squooshing.—
Jacob Feldman,
SI.com,
8 Sep. 2017
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The video went viral, and Mahan mashed it up with now-infamous clips of Porter walking out of a different interview earlier in the campaign cycle.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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Rather than using meat, add chickpeas or beans to tacos, burritos, or mashed in sandwiches.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
11 May 2026
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Predators probably avoided attacking healthy adults of any large sauropod species because of the danger of being squashed.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
15 May 2026
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Morris fell on top of her, knees spread to keep from squashing Dinah’s chest and maybe killing her.—
Stephen King,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
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Replays on Cleveland’s scoreboard showed Thompson grab Merrill by the neck and shove him to the deck.—
Hunter Patterson,
New York Times,
16 May 2026
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The next day she is shipped off to her first job, also within the confines of this impossibly vast building, which involves shoving film canisters down a pneumatic tube.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
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On the Right, Israel is being squeezed by a smaller faction of the Make America Great Again movement that wants to pare back all American foreign aid.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
16 May 2026
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Gas prices are continuing to squeeze drivers at the pump.—
Claire Malon,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2026
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The investigation determined that Castillo used his control panel to unlock the third inmate’s cell, and in his line of sight, the pair pulled open the door, entered the cell and proceeded to punch and kick the victim.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
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Two inmates punched and kicked the victim for about 30 seconds in his cell, while a third inmate stood guard.—
Tim Fang,
CBS News,
19 May 2026
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The economic loss could rise to as much as 100 trillion won if chip production disruptions force Samsung to scrap semiconductor wafers already in production.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
18 May 2026
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The fire destroyed two structures — a cabin and an equipment shed — and forced the evacuation of 11 National Park Service employees, who were rescued by a Santa Barbara County Fire Department helicopter.—
Jack Flemming,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
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“Squish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squish. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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