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squash

[skwosh, skwawsh] / skwɒʃ, skwɔʃ /


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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

These repeated half-term breaks and the long summer vacation mean French teachers have to squash their curriculum into 162 days per year, compared to 225 days in Germany for example, according to the OECD.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The rind was so hard that Ma had to take Pa’s ax to cut the squash into pieces.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

“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

All you’ll need are two medium acorn squashes, cooked quinoa or wild rice, fresh or dried cranberries, chopped pecans or walnuts, diced onions, garlic, cinnamon, thyme, olive oil, salt and pepper.

From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2024

“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

I go open the door a crack and there set a big ole eggplant, a batch of tomatoes, and four squashes.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

Lewis Hamilton says he and Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc have "squashed" any controversy between them after a difficult Italian Grand Prix.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

Once again, it looked like BlackBerry was about to be squashed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

Chonkers’s great leap briefly squashed the side of the structure down to the level of the water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

Despite having been squashed against me, the flower unfurled, its petals first shimmering, then glowing with the soft light you get just as the sun's coming up on a clear day.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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

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

A chimpanzee shudders and grimaces when it touches a big black spider, like you and I would do, before squashing it angrily with its knuckles, not something you and I would do.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel


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