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squatted

verb

past tense of squat

as in crouched

to lie low with the limbs close to the body a detective squatting to examine something on the ground

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Recent Examples of squatted Police said Alston and her boyfriend, Halley Tejada, gained access to the Kips Bay apartment Vitels had just moved into on 31st Street and squatted there for two days. — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 26 June 2026 Making a place known Just before noon the following day, Susan Washko squatted over a white plastic tub beside the stream that runs through Fiftymile Canyon. — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 7 June 2026 Eventually, Betty stopped and squatted. — Gabriel Debenedetti, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026 As catcher Dillon Dingler got down in his catching stance, Hinch squatted and leaned against a fence off to the side. — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026 Beneath it, a man squatted on the pavement, staring at nothing in particular, a glass pipe drooping from his fingers. — Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026 Many of those Mexicans saw their property squatted on or seized by the courts of their new nation. — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026 The brace successfully monitored joint bending while the subject walked, ran, squatted, and jumped, even reconstructing the person’s running gait with precision. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025 Brockington squatted 664 pounds, breaking his own record from last year by 50 pounds, and posted a vertical jump of 42 inches. — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 25 Sep. 2025

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After his rep against defensive end Odafe Oweh, Tunsil grabbed his left arm and crouched in obvious pain.

— Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2026
Those inside the room crouched down on the floor in the darkness, waiting for help for 30 minutes.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026

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During the attack, terrified students huddled together under their desks, sobbing as gunshots rang out nearby, video filmed inside a classroom and verified by CNN showed.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
The large overhead screens were used mainly to highlight Young and, to a much smaller extent, Johnson — rarely even showing the other three musicians (who were huddled way in the back of the stage).

— Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026

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