SQUIRRELED (AWAY) Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

squirreled (away)

verb

variants or squirrelled (away)

past tense of squirrel (away)

as in stored

to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place squirreled the information away for future reference

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Tap Save Image or Save Video Apple says photos and videos in the new Shared Albums experience can be stored at full resolution in their original formats.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
That’s because the computing components are stored in a separate module attached to the glasses with a wire.

— Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026

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The bar is lower than the basement room Luann got stashed in at Ramona’s Hamptons house.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
In previous court filings, prosecutors said Rush stashed roughly $46 million worth of gold bars from the federal government at his Virginia home.

— Michael Kunzelman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

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At the center of that decision was a memo put by Noem requiring that every contract above $100,000 must be personally signed off by her.

— Luke Barr, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
More than twice as many Palantir calls traded than puts by volume Monday, with traders buying 56,000 calls and fewer than 25,000 puts, according to ThinkOrSwim data.

— Oliver Renick, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026

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