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The Squishy Truth About Why You’re Seeing Fewer Spotted Lanternflies

Your stomping may have helped trim this invasive insect’s population. But experts say other factors probably explain their reduced numbers around New York City.

Spotted lanternflies, which are native to parts of Asia, were first detected in the United States in 2014, in eastern Pennsylvania.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times

Mainstream Republicans, ‘Squishes’ No More, Dig In Against Jordan

On Israel, Progressive Jews Feel Abandoned by Their Left-Wing Allies

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“It is easy to think of empathy as a squishy soft-skill in a hard world, which allows us to be nice, but also leaves us open to be trampled or left behind”. But empathic people often finish first, says psychologist Jamil Zaki #OpenFuture


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The People Analytics group is in many ways fundamentally reshaping the way Google hires. For example, the company now de-emphasizes GPAs and university pedigree in favor of squishier attributes, such as “intellectual humility” and “learning ability.”

Picasso Returns to Paris Museum Pedestal

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Millipedes – Yes, Millipedes – May Be Responsible for Australian Train Crash

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millipede

 mil • li • pede

発音

míləpìːd

[名]《動物》ヤスデ. 馬陸之類

［ラテン語mīlipeda（mīle1000＋pēs足）］

hit-and-run

打帶跑（日語：ヒットエンドラン，英文：Hit and run），就是俗稱的打跑，棒球比賽中時常見到的一種戰術，為壘上跑者提前起跑，打者不論好壞球都配合揮棒擊球，可達到 ...
adj.

1. Being or involving the driver of a motor vehicle who leaves the scene of an accident, especially one in which a pedestrian or another vehicle has been struck.
2. Baseball. Relating to or being a play in which a base runner starts to run on the pitch and the batter attempts to hit the ball to protect the runner.
3. Involving or designed for swift specific action or effect: "a day of hit-and-run disturbances by bands of dissident students" (Alfonso Narvaez).

connote

(verb) Express or state indirectly.

Synonyms:imply

Usage:

The term "ladies" connotes females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

pedestal,
n.
An architectural support or base, as for a column or statue.
A support or foundation.
A position of high regard or adoration.

tr.v., -taled, or -talled, -tal·ing, or -tal·ling, -tals, or -tals.

To place on or provide with a pedestal.

[Obsolete French, from Italian piedestallo : piè, foot (from Latin pēs; see pedi-) + di, of (from Latin dē; see de-) + stallo, stall (of Germanic origin).]
pedestal

Line breaks: ped|es¦tal

Pronunciation: /ˈpɛdɪst(ə)l   /

NOUN

1The base or support on which a statue, obelisk, orcolumn is mounted:a bronze bust on a marble pedestal1

Each of the two supports of a kneehole desk or table.

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1.2The supporting column or base of a washbasin ortoilet pan:[AS MODIFIER]:  a pedestal washbasin

2

A position in which someone is greatly or uncriticallyadmired:It’s as if I’m on a pedestal and he worships me - I hatethatlast week’s leaders were knocked off their pedestal,losing their first game of the season

VERB (pedestals, pedestalling, pedestalled; US pedestals,pedestaling, pedestaled)

[WITH OBJECT] (often as adjective pedestalled)Back to top  

Set or support on a pedestal:pedestalled dishes

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Origin

mid 16th century: from French piédestal, from Italianpiedestallo, from piè 'foot' (from Latin pes, ped-, which later influenced the spelling) + di 'of' + stallo 'stall'.

squish

/skwɪʃ/

verb

1. make a soft squelching sound when walked on or in.

   "the mud squished under my shoes"

noun

1. a soft squelching sound.

   "the squish of wet sand between the toes"

squishy,
Pronunciation: /skwɪʃ /

Definition of squish in English:

VERB

1Make a soft squelching sound when walked on or in:the mud squished under my shoes

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1.1informal Yield or cause to yield easily to pressure;squash:[NO OBJECT]: strawberries so ripe that they squished if picked too firmly[WITH OBJECT]: Naomi was furiously squishing herice cream in her bowl

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NOUN

[IN SINGULAR]Back to top  

A soft squelching sound:the squish of wet sand between the toes

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Origin

mid 17th century: imitative.