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squash

[skwosh, skwawsh] / skwɒʃ, skwɔʃ /


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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

For their first course guests enjoyed yellow squash, wild mushrooms and crispy pancetta.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Guests enjoyed a menu with Chinese influences, according to the White House, that included a first course of sweet yellow squash velouté with wild mushroom fricassée and scallion oil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

As for that $18.49 squash sauce, I browned some Italian sausage, boiled pasta, warmed the sauce and put a Caesar salad and good focaccia on the table.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

Carefully Sam removed three peas from his squash mound and tried to de-squash them with his finger.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

Drinks high in sugar can include fizzy sodas, energy drinks, sweetened juices, squashes, sweetened tea and coffee, and flavored milks.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026

“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

Root vegetables — like carrots, onions, potatoes and beets — winter squashes, cruciferous vegetables and greens are just a few notable cold-weather favorites.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024

Our modern acorn squashes and summer squashes are derived from those American squashes domesticated thousands of years ago.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The factory that AFP visited in Hunan province's Pingjiang turns out nearly 700 tonnes per day of the spongy, red-coloured strips, which look like squashed French fries covered in oil.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

It is not just squashed droppings the volunteers are looking for.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

So much time has passed and pretty quickly after the show ended, we sort of squashed everything, but we’ve lived separately and we don’t see each other ever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

But those that are further along are already tracking token use—scouting whose AI strategies should be amplified and what wastefulness should be squashed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

Similar to Captain, she was wider than she was tall, like a skunk who’d been squashed beneath the tire of a speeding car.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

In other words, instead of squashing creativity, AI is inspiring it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Instead Zverev pounced, breaking Shelton’s big serve in the first game of the match and squashing his momentum on a humid afternoon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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

The retired farmer had queued up on November 29 at a launch of Bardella's new book in the southern town of Moissac, squashing an egg on his head when he reached him.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

Would there be many dried fragments, like squashing a harmattan-dried leaf?

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


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