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squat

[skwot] / skwɒt /


VERB
lower body by bending knees
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On Camino Escalante, Guthrie’s squat, orange brick house is set back from the road behind a lawn planted with prickly pear, agave, cholla and yucca.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

D5 - the squat bungalow - now sits derelict, out of place among a row of plush, well-kept homes.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025

Its opening poem, “Digging,” feels earthbound with its low-pitched vowels: “Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

“It’s a belt squat machine,” Herbert explained, slipping the padded belt around his waist.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2025

Alex caught a glimpse of a squat black thing with four fat tires, a cross between a miniature tractor and a motorbike.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz




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