How to Use the squeeze in a Sentence
the squeeze
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The city of Anna, about a 30-minute drive north of Plano, was caught in the squeeze.
—Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2023
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Not worth the squeeze The Angels looked to scratch across an early run in the third inning.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 11 May 2024
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Jake Marisnick, pinch-running for Schoop, scored on the squeeze bunt to tie the game, 1-1, in the eighth inning.
—Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2023
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Emphasize the squeeze at the top of each rep, pausing briefly.
—Brett Williams, Men's Health, 31 May 2023
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Pause for a beat at the top, emphasizing the squeeze to your shoulder blades.
—Brett Williams, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
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The first viewers to feel the squeeze from the strikes will be those who rely solely on broadcast TV.
—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
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But the skill has taken him years — and a fair share of explosive moments — to know the right time to speak up when the squeeze is on.
—Joe Noga, cleveland, 12 July 2023
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The dip in refunds and the end of certain pandemic-era relief policies is putting the squeeze on many.
—Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023
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But the squeeze on its economy, trade and firms has yet to deliver a knockout blow.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 26 Feb. 2023
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The leads may have been cost-effective to acquire, but the juice was still never really worth the squeeze.
—Mindful Media, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024
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What sold me was the squeeze design that fills the bowl, then drains the extra water back into the bottle, so none is wasted.
—Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
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Despite all the warnings of possible doom procuring old wine at auction, the juice is worth the squeeze.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 26 Nov. 2023
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And the onsite ice cream shop is a godsend, stocked with all the squeeze pouches and kid snacks a young family could desire.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2024
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Even Habita! is feeling the squeeze: The group’s landlord will not renew its lease, which expires next year.
—Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
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Emphasize the squeeze at the top of the rep; avoid any backwards lean or shoulder movement, keeping the focus on the biceps.
—Brett Williams, Men's Health, 31 May 2023
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Drugmakers are suing the government to stop the squeeze.
—John Tozz and Nacha Cattan Bloomberg News (tns), Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2023
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The concept of the squeeze bottle, as many online spectators pointed out, is not new.
—Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 26 Apr. 2023
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The implication is that the harder the squeeze, the sweeter the juice—that there’s virtue in staring down the empty page, taming it, forcing it to give way to prose.
—Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
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Urban Heat captures the frustrations of trying to make it in a big city when rents only go up and the squeeze is put on creatives.
—Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 24 May 2023
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There will be a frontal system approaching from the west, and the squeeze play between the front and high pressure over the Atlantic can mean the weather will not be perfect.
—Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
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The world’s biggest exchange, Binance Holdings, is feeling the squeeze.
—Yueqi Yang, Katanga Johnson and Austin Weinstein, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2023
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Most of them say they’ve been dragged back to working for scale in a marketplace that has paid high-wattage stars record fees but put the squeeze on everyone else down the call sheet.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 24 July 2023
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Either way, the fact remains: Something that was free is now paid, with users and developers the ones to really feel the squeeze.
—Matt Weinberger, Fortune, 26 June 2023
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Providers, parents, and especially children have all felt the squeeze of this failure.
—Nishant Pandya, STAT, 8 May 2023
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To address the squeeze, the airport recently began a $1.3 billion project to upgrade and expand its Great Hall.
—Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2023
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Economists say the state’s labor market remains extremely tight, though, even if some of the squeeze has eased.
—oregonlive, 23 July 2023
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British banks expect to put the squeeze on the mortgage market in the coming months after signs emerged of business and household loan defaults picking up.
—Tom Rees, Bloomberg.com, 13 Apr. 2023
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And if audiences have a hard time remembering the work, was the multi-million-dollar proverbial juice worth the squeeze for these brands?
—Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
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University enrollment is up 26% compared with 10 years ago, and rising costs have added to the squeeze.
—Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Jan. 2024
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The industry feels the squeeze As younger consumers lose interest and baby boomers age out of drinking, the wine industry is suffering from oversupply.
—Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 9 Apr. 2024
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