squeeze
Example Sentences
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This is a godsend for Germany’s embattled manufacturing sector, which has steadily shrunk for seven years, squeezed by high energy prices, aggressive competition from China and U.S. tariffs.
Its rear seat only had two seat belts but was big enough for three people to squeeze in.
Well repair and rehabilitation could squeeze more production from aging fields.
From Barron's
The big swing was the result of a massive short squeeze, they said, as a broker was left scrambling for shares of the Infosys ADRs.
From MarketWatch
But as labor shortages, high interest rates and a costly fiscal squeeze begins to bite, growth is sputtering.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.