squeeze up
phrasal verb
squeezed up; squeezing up; squeezes up
British
: to move closer together
Squeeze up, please. We need to make room for one more person.
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Zen 5 will also have a Zen 5c variant with the same design goal, likely part of how AMD managed to squeeze up to 192 cores on an Epyc Turin CPU die.
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Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PCMAG, 15 July 2024
Seeing thousands of fans jump up and down, mosh and squeeze up against the barricade to sing along live aren’t moments lost on these guys, either.
—Kelli Fadroski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
That allows surgeons to squeeze up to six or seven patients into a single day.
—Aimee Ortiz, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
Still, anyone who spends even a little time observing Washington’s glassy new high-rises squeezed up against its squat Federal piles, many built by enslaved people, will recognize Ijames’s spiritual geography: a place where history is both erased and inescapable.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 30 May 2023
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Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PCMAG, 15 July 2024
Seeing thousands of fans jump up and down, mosh and squeeze up against the barricade to sing along live aren’t moments lost on these guys, either.
—Kelli Fadroski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
That allows surgeons to squeeze up to six or seven patients into a single day.
—Aimee Ortiz, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
Still, anyone who spends even a little time observing Washington’s glassy new high-rises squeezed up against its squat Federal piles, many built by enslaved people, will recognize Ijames’s spiritual geography: a place where history is both erased and inescapable.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 30 May 2023
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“Squeeze up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/squeeze%20up. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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