squash
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Fire-roasted corn, peas and carrots, mixed vegetables, edamame, spinach and cubed butternut squash: These are all regulars in my freezer.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
For their study, the scientists at King's College London analysed 12 raw or uncooked fresh foods - beetroot, bell pepper, broccoli, butternut squash, cauliflower, celeriac, curly kale, fennel, kiwi fruit, leek, pineapple and watermelon.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Fitness enthusiasts will also have access to strength-training equipment, cardio facilities, yoga and barre offerings, squash, and personalized training services.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Planting to harvest takes at least nine months, too long for most Filipino farmers who preferred the shorter growing period for beans, squash or bittergourd to feed their families, the farmer added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Then Ma put on the boiled potatoes and cabbage and meat, the baked beans, the hot johnny-cake and the baked Hubbard squash, and she poured the tea.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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“If this thing falls on me and kills me, it’s gonna be like, ‘Giant-squash squashes squash-professor,’” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
“Time bends. Space is boundless. It squashes a man’s ego. I feel lonely.”
From New York Times ● May 15, 2024
The gravitational pull also squashes the spacetime, altering its shape depending on how it's observed.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024
The Southampton farm has entered the record books for the largest mosaic created from squashes.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2023
Now imagine that a giant hand comes down and squashes the book flat.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Hopes that data centres would provide jobs that are desperately needed in South Africa have also been squashed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
The Cubs, however, squashed thoughts of a potential comeback with a three-run rally in the sixth against Edgardo Henriquez and Tanner Scott.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
It won’t surprise you that nowadays our daydreaming time is shrinking, one more thing squashed by social media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Nestere Yehdego, 31, his wife and their two daughters aged four and one are squashed together in a one-bedroom flat in Slough.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
I squashed it down over my dirty hair, and then I was off.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
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In other words, instead of squashing creativity, AI is inspiring it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Hill also said she was "really frustrated" with Hampshire police for not squashing the false claims and confirming she does not work for them anymore.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Concerns about AI squashing software company earnings turning into a run on private-credit funds lending to software firms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Jacob Ulibarri spent about six hours on New Year’s Day last year squashing hot spots where the Lachman fire had burned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
I clocked out and left without no good-byes and stomp down the street like I was squashing bugs.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
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