squeeze
Example Sentences
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Beef is more expensive than ever, and while many restaurants are feeling the squeeze, steakhouses are particularly in a pinch given their reliance on sales of dishes with a juicy porterhouse or rib-eye.
Analysts say 2025 has been a challenging year for people as rising prices and other factors have squeezed household finances.
From BBC
Mud has filled her house on Oriole Road to the point where she has to crawl just to squeeze into it.
From Los Angeles Times
The bear that squeezed through a small opening and made himself at home is tagged by wildlife officials as 2120 and has been trapped and moved from Altadena before.
From Los Angeles Times
It means a further squeeze on household budgets as inflation - the rate at which prices rise - remains stubbornly high, though it has fallen from peaks seen in recent years.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
