squeegee
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“Poppy,” a multicolored abstract from 1995 created using the German artist’s signature squeegee gesture is expected to sell for around $15 million.
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
Others have hit the streets, selling flowers and brandishing squeegees to wash car windows.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
Across the way underneath the stadium near the visitors’ clubhouse, others with squeegees worked to push the water-hail mixture into drains.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
Inside downtown L.A.’s Union Station, a crew of workers used squeegees to push water toward several pumps after a central passageway flooded with several inches of water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2021
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
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
Such a show’s image-object godfather might be German painter Gerhard Richter, whose work alternates between fuzzy photographic realism and blurry, squeegeed abstractions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2016
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
Derwin Catchings, another longtime squeegee worker, said he keeps coming back to squeegeeing because the payout is immediate.
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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