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
Dicey didn’t even know what a squeegee was.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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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
“They were there with shovels and squeegees and water, and people packing, and kids helping,” Collins said above the din of air conditioning and a dehumidifier in his shop.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2022
Yet as the grounds crew used squeegees and team president John Carpino skipped baseballs across the grass to test their paths, it became clear to game officials that baseball could not be played safely.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2019
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
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
But the show includes pieces by other notables who squeegeed ink across silk-screens at Workshop Inc., the studio Stovall founded in 1968.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 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
He said squeegeeing has taught him to develop a unique brand of customer service.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2023
While city leaders pledged to finally address the root causes of squeegeeing, members of the public expressed skepticism about whether this latest effort will provide anything more than a Band-Aid solution.
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
In a mirror image above, at least forty people dangle from the ceiling by harnesses, squeegeeing off the already pristine dome ceiling.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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