squeaker
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And the one game they did barely win was a 20-17 squeaker over perhaps the worst team in football, the New England Patriots.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
Minnesota has given up 19 more points than it has scored, thanks to its squeaker victories and lopsided defeats.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
Now it’s time for a visit from Iowa State, which won its only other road game, a 10-7 squeaker over Iowa on Sept. 10.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
Cox had the distinction of winning the closest congressional race in the country, an 862-vote squeaker over Republican incumbent David Valadao.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
Although embodying a very ancient principle—the "squeaker" reed which our little children still make, and continued in the Egyptian arghool—the clarinet is the most recent member of the wood wind band.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various
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