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How to use the word Squeeze in a Sentence?

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Guilty as charged, the role of the general manager lends itself to thinking about every single thing you can do to squeeze out one more win for your team… You don’t have time to sit back and think about the aesthetic value of the game or even the entertainment value of the game.

Theo Epstein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's a total squeeze on budgets. I just got off the phone with a bride and it's budget, budget, budget.

Chris Todd

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's like a balloon, you squeeze one end and it bulges out the other. That is a very real concern of ours.

Alan Gilbert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They immediately tried to put the final squeeze on us, finish us off, and utterly destroy us. This is how it was in the 1990s and the early 2000s, when the so-called collective West was actively supporting separatism and gangs of mercenaries in southern Russia, what victims, what losses we had to sustain and what trials we had to go through at that time before we broke the back of international terrorism in the Caucasus ! We remember this and will never forget.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That is extremely crazy for gas, i try to pack the days when I go to the office -- if I can do anything right after work or on my hour lunch break I will try to squeeze things in because...it's a day I am already driving.

Sara Hill

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's a really tricky game to figure out what can I do, what can I not do and how can I squeeze a little more money here and there ? .

Elisabeth Mendes Saigg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Oil prices will certainly continue their journey to the north making the oil companies more profitable in the coming quarters, the rising short bets also means a rising risk of a short squeeze, where investors who have bet for the prices to fall decide to close their positions — and closing a short position involves buying back the stock.

Ipek Ozkardeskaya

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're seeing an enormous level of cynicism and skepticism about the way that big corporations conduct themselves. Voters think that corporations try to squeeze every penny of profit out of every opportunity, regardless of the consequences.

Geoff Garin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We will continue on a remorseless mission to squeeze Russia, from the global economy, piece by piece. Day by day, and week by week.

Boris Johnson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We will squeeze Putin’s regime and all those close to him responsible for its appalling attack on Ukraine, we will not rest until Russia’s economy has been degraded and Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity restored.

Liz Truss

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We look through the sights, squeeze the trigger and the toy soldiers go flying, dying hard but smiling in the process. The toy maker should be laughing the whole way to the bank but Nietzsche said he was dead too.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

It would look slightly pathetic if I tried to squeeze back into the Elf tights.

Jon Favreau

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It almost always gets you first-degree murder because premeditation can be formed in an instant, you put your hands around the neck, that’s an unwanted touching, that’s simple battery or assault. Then you start to squeeze, your argument could be, ‘Well, I just wanted to scare them.' But then you contuse to affix pressure… There’s a certain amount of minimal time that someone needs to do that before somebody is dead.

Mark Eiglarsh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Obviously, Harvick and Chase got together. Chase was upset. Kind of held him up, it got Harvick having to move around and use his tires up off the bottom. I started to get some dive-ins working off of( turn) two, got a big run, decided to pull the trigger, slide him, squeeze him a little bit, hen he had me jacked up down the frontstretch. It was wild.

Kyle Larson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We make anywhere work, we went to Chicago … with Roam, and we walked all around and did all the things in Chicago and she loved it. Most places have parks, so we always just squeeze in a park or something for her.

Kristin Watson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If I've got an orange and a lime, and you tell me, I'm going to squeeze every ounce of juice out of this lime and then just give the orange a kind of a nudge and hope that less than half the juice comes out -- that's kind of what they're looking at, because there's twice as many Democrats as Republicans in California. Even if you put all the independents, the third parties and so forth together with the Republicans, you would barely edge out the Democratic registration.

California Democratic consultant Robb Korinke

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was always holding his hand so some days I would hold his hand and say, squeeze it if you want me to grab you a water or do something else for you, some days he was n’t able to talk so he would just squeeze my hand. And I was down on boxing. I was thinking about quitting. I was like, what did I get Ali Walsh into. But he pushed me forward. And I still remember that moment to this day.

Ali Walsh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Essentially the Fed has been taking down all of the net supply of Treasuries, so I think this has been a bit of a supply ... a short squeeze, if you will, on the Treasury market.

Jeffrey Schulze

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I did New Englander.When Alaska because New Englander.When Alaska's the right thing to do for the people of New Englander.When Alaska, i also plan to squeeze them as hard as possible to vote for the bipartisan package.

Gina Raimondo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The day Richard was discharged from the NICU was such a special day. I remember picking him up out of his crib and just holding him with tears in my eyes, i couldn't believe this was the same little boy that once was so sick, that I feared he may not survive. The same little boy that once fit in the palm of my hand, with skin so translucent that I could see every rib and vessel in his tiny body. I couldn't help but squeeze him and tell him how proud I was of him.

Stacy Kern

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My first reaction upon hearing about this policy was that it will further squeeze the space for women in the workplace, even if you already have two children, [ employers ] will worry that you might want a third.

Melody Chen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

From a short seller’s perspective, I was spooked a week-and-a-half ago to short any small caps because I was worried WallStreetBets could squeeze me on it, i’m not spooked anymore; I kind of went back to normal trading, so I can say I think the WallStreetBets influence is not as strong as it was last week.

Dennis Dick

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The WallStreetBets influence is diminishing to a certain extent because there are a lot of people that got burned, from a short seller’s perspective, I was spooked a week-and-a-half ago to short any small caps because I was worried WallStreetBets could squeeze me on it.

Dennis Dick

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

People are putting on puts in order to profit from the eventual GameStop short squeeze to be over.

Matt Amberson

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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