Thesaurus results for SQUOOSHES

squooshes

verb

present tense third-person singular of squoosh

as in bears (down on)

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Luckily, this deal squashes that qualm by knocking over $300 from the sticker shocker!

— Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 6 July 2026
Chicken, bacon, and ranch might as well be the holy trio that squashes all fights and satisfies every hangry complaint.

— Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 3 Mar. 2026

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The leadership structure that remains suggests companies will increasingly absorb executive responsibilities across fewer people as AI compresses the distance between strategy and execution.

— Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
This is the step where the barista compresses the ground coffee within the portafilter to create a dense puck.

— Better Homes & Gardens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of compresses

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Dylan Newsome Being the star athlete, Dylan has a complicated relationship with football because his father pressures him to win.

— Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026
The government has offered cash incentives to those willing to leave and pressures others to give up legal efforts by holding them in detention.

— Cindy Carcamo, Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2026

Definition of pressures

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Starling Marte mashes one The hometown fans, who appeared to be outnumbered among the 24,225 at The K, had something to cheer in the fourth inning.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 9 Aug. 2026
Created by Chicago painter Nathaniel Mary Quinn, the image mashes up caricatures of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood into a glorious grotesquerie that channels the colorful glam-trash aesthetics of the band’s late-’70s phase.

— Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026

Definition of mashes

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And if the pizza isn’t enticing enough, Urban Cowboy’s cocktail program punches far above its weight class.

— Beth Rankin, Denver Post, 27 July 2026
As the officer is pinned down, one person repeatedly punches her in the head while another appears to strike her with an unidentified object before a second officer intervenes.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026

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