squat
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It’s big, too, nearly 10 miles long, and peaky, with some squat concrete buildings up at the crest of one of the hills, and a single telegraph pole.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
At a mid-range seafood restaurant in Taipei, packed with locals under swirling orange artwork, a squat robot server rolled between the tables ferrying dishes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
As the new property manager of Parkwood Apartments, a squat complex of 175 low-rise apartments and townhouses in the San Diego suburbs, she says she excelled.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Many residents, like Villegas, squat close to destroyed homes, hopeful to be nearby when, and if, the remains of relatives are found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The checks were written in the squat, neat print of Momma’s manager, Wynn.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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He has since taken to stripping to the waist for social-media videos of himself at the gym pounding a treadmill and doing squats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
We performed classic moves: squats, crunches, high and low planks and bird dogs, among them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
He has them doing hip thrusts, banded side lunges, goblet curtsy squats and cable kickbacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
Examples include chair squats, heel drops, and wall push-ups.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2026
We were driving down the highway, past the brown grass part of Oklahoma that squats next to the airport.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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Or is about to when she realizes her squatter is Misty Green, minor celebrity, and so grants her a week until eviction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
But there is still so much darkness in “The Grapes of Wrath,” especially in its scenes of John Qualen’s Muley Graves, crumpled on the ground, suddenly a squatter on his own piece of land.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Patent and Trademark Office, Tesla said Unibev was “a bad-faith trademark squatter, who started as a Tesla fan” and described the French company’s attempt to trademark the Cybercab moniker as fraudulent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
As the sun rose, the squatter camp gradually vanished under the earth.
From BBC ● May 25, 2024
“Built by a fellow, oh, twenty years ago,” said Pa. “He was a squatter who pitched a tent in the woods and built that outhouse.”
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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Star running back Jadan Baugh squatted such an astronomical number—600 pounds—that the conditioning staff prohibited him from throwing any more weight on the machine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Many others throughout the country -- particularly around the capital Tirana and Albania's principal port, Durres, were simply squatted.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Others squatted on balcony steps or leaned against walls for the roughly 90-minute service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Freddie Freeman, the walk-off hero of last year’s Fall Classic against the New York Yankees, squatted behind the plate to catch it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
He squatted down, to get closer to the earth, and he crumpled there.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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Still, the only two clubs with a lower average attendance are the sad-sack Miami Marlins and the homeless Athletics, who are currently squatting at a Triple-A stadium in West Sacramento, Calif.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
As labor continued, she got into a squatting position; she let out some squeals and her tail flapped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
KeyBanc analyst Ashley Owens wrote in a Thursday noet that some Reddit reviews of a Valentine’s edition line of pants with a “scattered heart” pattern indicate that the fabric becomes see-through when bending and squatting.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026
The actress said the following day she "went to the set and, because I was squatting on the floor, all het up, I farted in front of him. I was mortified".
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
A murmur of voices reached him and he quickly stepped into an alcove, squatting beside a drinking fountain as two men and a woman walked past, all wearing white coats, arguing about Web servers.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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