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squash

[skwosh, skwawsh] / skwɒʃ, skwɔʃ /


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Planting to harvest takes at least nine months, too long for most Filipino farmers who preferred the shorter growing period for beans, squash or bittergourd to feed their families, the farmer added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Guests enjoyed a menu with Chinese influences, according to the White House, that included a first course of sweet yellow squash velouté with wild mushroom fricassée and scallion oil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

As for that $18.49 squash sauce, I browned some Italian sausage, boiled pasta, warmed the sauce and put a Caesar salad and good focaccia on the table.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

"It was just so easy to squash him up and reform him as a dog, or a submarine, or a bird or anything," Lord said.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

A funny little garden gnome stands guard by Uncle Phil’s squash patch.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

Drinks high in sugar can include fizzy sodas, energy drinks, sweetened juices, squashes, sweetened tea and coffee, and flavored milks.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026

“If this thing falls on me and kills me, it’s gonna be like, ‘Giant-squash squashes squash-professor,’” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025

“Time bends. Space is boundless. It squashes a man’s ego. I feel lonely.”

From New York Times ● May 15, 2024

The Southampton farm has entered the record books for the largest mosaic created from squashes.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2023

She showed Sammy where the cucumbers were and went back to the squashes herself.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

It is another sign of water vole activity - squashed poo.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The factory that AFP visited in Hunan province's Pingjiang turns out nearly 700 tonnes per day of the spongy, red-coloured strips, which look like squashed French fries covered in oil.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Chonkers’s great leap briefly squashed the side of the structure down to the level of the water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

So much time has passed and pretty quickly after the show ended, we sort of squashed everything, but we’ve lived separately and we don’t see each other ever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

Her brain moved faster than her body as she calculated the speed of the truck, the velocity of her brother, and the precise moment to grab him before he got squashed.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

In other words, instead of squashing creativity, AI is inspiring it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

And he hadn’t allowed more than one baserunner in any inning, squashing the scrappy Rays’ ability to manufacture a run.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Concerns about AI squashing software company earnings turning into a run on private-credit funds lending to software firms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

The retired farmer had queued up on November 29 at a launch of Bardella's new book in the southern town of Moissac, squashing an egg on his head when he reached him.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

Hermione was squashing Phineas Nigellus’s portrait back into the beaded bag; when she had fastened the clasp she threw the bag aside and raised a shining face to Harry.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling


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