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squeegee

[skwee-jee, skwee-jee] / ˈskwi dʒi, skwiˈdʒi /
NOUN
mop
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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

Now, 30 years after it premiered here, also around Thanksgiving, the digital squeegee has been applied to “Anthology,” the band’s own multi-part video memoir.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 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

Dicey didn’t even know what a squeegee was.

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

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

Out came the squeegees, and a delay waiting for them to move away the water.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2022

Now, boys, lay aft here with your squeegees, and give this poop a drying down!”

From The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" by William Heysham Overend

Sequim’s lavender industry is a curious attraction in this heavily squeegeed corner of the Pacific Northwest.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022

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

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

The planned enforcement action marks a major turning point in the city’s approach to squeegeeing.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2023

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

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

Then that enormous tongue poked out and spun clockwise around his face, squeegeeing the icing and cake away in one sloppy swipe.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers




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