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as in to compress
to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members together
squeezed the blanket until it fit into the box
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as in to pluck
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
the mob squeezes all the local merchants by threatening violence
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as in squeezing
the act or process of reducing the size or volume of something by or as if by pressing
he gave the plastic bag a squeeze and then folded it up for storage
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as in darling
slang
a person with whom one is in love
she and her main squeeze are spending Valentine's Day at a romantic country inn
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Recent Examples of squeeze
Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 11 Mar. 2025
Rising insurance costs are cutting deeper into family incomes and squeezing small businesses.
—Phillip Reese, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2025
Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Concerns that president Trump's sweeping tariff plans could backfire and exacerbate the country's inflationary struggles are already beginning to materialize, and retaliatory measures by key trading partners such as China and Canada promise to put an additional squeeze on U.S. industry.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
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Verb
In November, a CRT officer repeatedly grabbed and squeezed a man’s genitals without searching him elsewhere, according to an investigation by the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board that was obtained by ProPublica.
—Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 11 Mar. 2025
Rising insurance costs are cutting deeper into family incomes and squeezing small businesses.
—Phillip Reese, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
The cave is a maze of vertical shafts, deadly freefall pits and claustrophobic squeezes.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Concerns that president Trump's sweeping tariff plans could backfire and exacerbate the country's inflationary struggles are already beginning to materialize, and retaliatory measures by key trading partners such as China and Canada promise to put an additional squeeze on U.S. industry.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for squeeze
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Related article An Olympic dream crushed, an elite career derailed.—
Aleks Klosok,
CNN,
20 Mar. 2025
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But that still left the question of how to cover the crushing fees of a major health problem like cancer.—
Alana Semuels,
TIME,
20 Mar. 2025
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The train car was crammed with people sitting on the lower and upper berths, squatting in the aisles, and crowding the vestibule leading to the toilets, and this might have been the reason that Ganesh Rajwar was sitting in the open doorway, his feet on the metal stairs.—
Amitava Kumar,
The New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2025
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That's because, in collaboration with Vapor Propulsion Labs (VPL) – the North American distributor for Bosch – the team had to come up with a unique way to cram the Performance Line SX motor into the frame.—
Paul Ridden,
New Atlas,
7 Mar. 2025
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Many attendees shared their excitement about earning rewards while performing everyday activities, underscoring DePIN’s accessible and practical appeal.—
Sandy Carter,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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North Carolina snuck into the men’s draw as the final team chosen, a notable decision given that a) UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham is chair of the selection committee, and b) Cunningham earned a $68,000 bonus for the Tar Heels’ selection.—
Scott Soshnick,
Sportico.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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It's considered lossless to the eye, but the signal is actually compressed at a 3:1 ratio.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
18 Mar. 2025
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The Liberal leadership race was compressed, and Carney was far ahead all along, so his opponents were not motivated to challenge him too much.—
Stephen Maher,
TIME,
9 Mar. 2025
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Juwan Johnson, a 6-foot-4 open-space threat who Payton plucked undrafted out of Penn State in 2020, is re-upping for three years with the New Orleans Saints after constant buzz over a potential Payton reunion in Denver.—
Luca Evans,
The Denver Post,
11 Mar. 2025
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Hitchcock would have loved this beyond, given the sheer technical wizardry and skill of debuting 27-year-old Irish director Ronan Corrigan, who was plucked from a Black List-style program Bekmambetov founded called Screenlifers, designed to help emerging filmmakers in the format.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
8 Mar. 2025
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Brianna had been in a giddy mood, pushing up against Cassidy, laughing, stumbling, holding out her iPhone to take a selfie of the two of them, dishevelled and flush-faced.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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The Council was founded just after World War I. It was initially focused on pushing back against isolationism and underscoring the importance of U.S. engagement in the world.—
Edward Felsenthal,
TIME,
16 Mar. 2025
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That’s especially important as the artificial intelligence darling and bull market leader has pulled back following back-to-back years of monster gains.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
11 Mar. 2025
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This sequel to a 2022 indie darling casts you as a Sleeper, a robot worker fleeing their gang-boss captor.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2025
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The announcement of this investigation comes almost a week after the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office declined to press criminal charges against the officer, identified by Dustman as Jordan White.—
PJ Green,
Kansas City Star,
21 Mar. 2025
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But behind every innovation and infrastructure build-out is a pressing question: Who will power this next wave of growth—and where will that talent come from?—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Squeeze.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squeeze. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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