squishier; squishiest
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: being soft, yielding, and usually damp
2
squishiness
noun
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The ground was wet and squishy.
those are awfully squishy estimates for the final cost of a new football stadium
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It's taken us a long time to see fat as a dynamic organ that isn’t just squishy storage for extra calories.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
Conventional wisdom dictates that bottle caps must be squishy to enable bottles to seal against the ceilings of their caps.
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As the water recedes, a squishy creature is left clinging to the slippery, wet rocks.
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PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
It's taken us a long time to see fat as a dynamic organ that isn’t just squishy storage for extra calories.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
Conventional wisdom dictates that bottle caps must be squishy to enable bottles to seal against the ceilings of their caps.
—Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
As the water recedes, a squishy creature is left clinging to the slippery, wet rocks.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for squishy
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“Squishy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/squishy. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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