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squashes

  • plural of squash.
  • present tense form of squash (3rd person singular).

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“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 gravitational pull also squashes the spacetime, altering its shape depending on how it's observed.

From Science Daily Feb. 21, 2024

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

From BBC Oct. 23, 2023

Chili peppers, squashes, amaranths, and chenopods are other crops of which different but related species were domesticated in Mesoamerica and South America, since no species was able to spread fast enough to preempt the others.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond