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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

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

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

From Seattle Times Mar. 11, 2022

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

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

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

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

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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