squish
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It turns out that it’s difficult to squish a sphere into a flat rectangle without some disfigurement, but the Mercator errors have finally led to pushback.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
When you think about your work and your company, Complexly, you don’t want to squish it down to the shortest version, right?
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2026
The full sensory experience of eating food is also important, she added — getting messy, using spoons, fingers and tiny fists to squish food and smear on a highchair and face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024
Little ones can squish their fingers in the mud and explore all the different textures and smells as part of sensory play.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
Neel didn’t mind—he loved the tang of salt on his tongue and the squish of mud between his toes.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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Like the scene where Wade squishes his entire body mass into a thin stream of water so he can slip through a chain-link fence?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
Infinite density can be found inside a black hole, where gravity is so intense that it squishes matter into a mind-bogglingly small space called a singularity.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 26, 2023
“For most of the history of cell biology, we couldn’t directly measure or observe the mechanical forces,” he said, even though it was clear that “motors and squishes and pushes” were at play.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2022
Both Breyer and Roberts, whether you dismiss them as squishes or laud them as statesmen, believed in sitting down with the other side and hearing their best arguments.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2022
She kneels down and squishes him in hugs.
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
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