squirrel (away)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for squirrel (away)
Verb
  • Most of that ends up in the Wayback Machine, while the rest is digitized analog media — books, television, radio, academic papers — scanned and stored on servers.
    Emma Bowman, NPR, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Wise minds inside any presidential administration would quickly sell every barrel of oil presently stored in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The Lifting Eye Serum, to Dr. Barbara Sturm Enzyme Cleanser and more, Olivia Culpo has been known to stash a few high-end buys in her beauty cabinet.
    Dahvi Shira, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • That woman tuned out to be Barba, who police discovered in a car nearby an apartment where the drugs were meant to be stashed with a shoebox of fentanyl on the front passenger floor.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • When the smoke cleared, leaving stains on the green that didn’t affect their shots, Scheffler, who missed birdie puts by inches on 16 and 17, came up an inch short again on his 26-footer.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 23 June 2024
  • Truman answers the questions put by Pearl’s diners.
    Liz Smith, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024
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“Squirrel (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squirrel%20%28away%29. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.

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