squeegee
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“Poppy,” a multicolored abstract from 1995 created using the German artist’s signature squeegee gesture is expected to sell for around $15 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
"For a brief second, I thought there was someone with a squeegee mop cleaning the outside of the window. I turned around, and it was the bear's wet nose rubbing against the window."
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
The sustenance is presided over by a sculpture of an Amazonian woman, who wields a squeegee rather than a lance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2025
Edan McPherson dips a long squeegee into a pool of melted chocolate, draws the rubber blade across the coarse mesh.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
She did it in four sections, wetting the glass, pulling the squeegee down over it firmly, squeezing the squeegee out and repeating the last step twice.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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The players finally re-emerged for warm-ups about one hour and 40 minutes later, and even then the restart was delayed further as stadium personnel used squeegees to remove standing water off the pitch.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Others have hit the streets, selling flowers and brandishing squeegees to wash car windows.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
Out came the squeegees, and a delay waiting for them to move away the water.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
Stadium crews armed with squeegees and blowers were forced into action before the first semifinal, at halftimes and between matches.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2019
The grout, consisting of equal parts of sand and cement, is mixed to a thin consistency and poured onto the surface and is then worked into the joints with squeegees.
From American Rural Highways by T. R. (Thomas Radford) Agg
Bruce Lee had so much of it, it practically had to be squeegeed off the walls whenever he was in a room.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
Richter cleaned it up by creating another mess: He began to paint energetic, expressionist abstractions, then squeegeed them into blurry, visually mesmerizing smears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2021
The bleachers also are squeegeed, so, as Percival said, the crew doesn’t “use all the towels in D.C.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2018
Anyone with the mildest case of synaesthesia will have a jarring time of it with some of these paintings, where the same words – Blah Blah Blah – come squeegeed in cacophonously multicoloured arrays.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2012
The windshield of the SUV was filthy, smeared with dead hugs, even though Dad had squeegeed it when they last stopped to refuel.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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Rogers climbed into his pickup truck after squeegeeing his windshield.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
Some workers said they were already rethinking squeegeeing after experiencing increased stigma and decreased profits in recent months.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2023
Scott was skeptical about the new plan to ban squeegeeing in certain areas.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2023
But by squeegeeing the layers separately one right after the other, the researchers laid down a better network of donors and acceptors at up to 30 m per minute.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 10, 2022
In a mirror image above, at least forty people dangle from the ceiling by harnesses, squeegeeing off the already pristine dome ceiling.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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