squeegee
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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
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
On another street, a young Asian woman was using a long-handled squeegee to push water out the front door of a Chinese restaurant.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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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
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
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
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Rogers climbed into his pickup truck after squeegeeing his windshield.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
Perhaps most importantly, he said, squeegeeing has taught him perseverance — how to accept rejection and keep moving.
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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