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squeegee

[skwee-jee, skwee-jee] / ˈskwi dʒi, skwiˈdʒi /
NOUN
mop
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The pieces, all individually crafted, often require more than one squeegee pass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

She displayed “Poppy,” a squeegee abstract in cheery red and blue hues, in her living room, with an untitled version in subtler white and green hues from 2009 hanging in her bedroom.

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

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

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

As the rain fell overnight, a maintenance crew armed with leaf blowers and giant squeegees worked up to kickoff to keep the field in decent condition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025

Others have hit the streets, selling flowers and brandishing squeegees to wash car windows.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

Working with sponges, brushes, towels, squeegees, hand-cut stencils and a rich array of oil-based inks, Mr. Stovall helped demonstrate that printmaking was an art form, not just a commercial craft.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2023

The tar was made hot and applied to the surfaces with rubber squeegees and then sanded.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

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

But the show includes pieces by other notables who squeegeed ink across silk-screens at Workshop Inc., the studio Stovall founded in 1968.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2021

While water trickled steadily from ceilings and air vents, Pam Walker, director of basketball operations, squeegeed next to Jonah Badrna, a custodian.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2014

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

Rogers climbed into his pickup truck after squeegeeing his windshield.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

He said squeegeeing has taught him to develop a unique brand of customer service.

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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