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[kram] / kræm /




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Parking doesn’t exist, so cars cram onto the sidewalk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

As companies cram more-powerful graphics chips into data centers, moving information quickly between those processors is becoming a bigger challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

You don’t need to cram every beautiful thing into the same dinner merely because it came home in the same tote.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

IBM has unveiled a new chip design which it says could enable manufacturers to cram 100 billion transistors on a silicon chip the size of a fingernail.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

If Good Boys and True was judged worthy, the trip to Nebraska would occur after graduation, during “beach week,” when Truman’s seniors traditionally cram into houses in the tacky Jersey Shore town of Wildwood.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Grubin, chief executive of product-sampling firm SoPost, said he’d rather have a functional room than one that crams all the bathroom stuff in a separate space.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

The influx crams even more people into one of Gaza’s most densely populated areas.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

Two older daughters born before Guantánamo both have children, and sometimes the entire family crams into his four-room, state-supported apartment in Carros, a hillside village north of Nice.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

For two and a half hours, the movie crams in so many special effects-driven magical battles and tedious explanations for how fairy tales work that there’s no time for any levity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022

There are no assigned seats—everyone crams in wherever they find space.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

Three rooms were crammed with plants growing behind tarpaulin screens under bright lights.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The so-called diversified index funds are crammed with AI.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Still, every spare inch is crammed with more than 32 different kinds of orchids imported from around the world, including such beauties as the flame-like Epidendrum radicans and the rare Dimorphorchis lowii.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

"They are giving us pads but we don't have undergarments," said Tamang, whose family of 20 has been living in a crammed classroom.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

In fact, I felt like a student who has crammed for a difficult exam and then is tested on only the most elementary material.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Maybe it’s just a matter of time that the Chargers don’t have much of, cramming to learn McDaniel’s methods, to dial in the timing and coordination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

A Home Office spokesperson said this latest incident demonstrated the "reckless and dangerous tactics employed by criminal gangs... who continue to put lives at risk by cramming ever greater numbers of people onto unseaworthy vessels".

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

“Meghan’s serving your insatiable thirst for dance-ready bops with the upbeat banger that is ‘Foolish,’” the release stated, cramming two bits of gay slang into one sentence.

From Salon ● May 10, 2026

If it seems like Chinese battery-makers are cramming for final exams, they are.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

The report she wrote took up four sheets of the special India paper she used, even cramming her writing as tightly as she could and using a super-sharp hard pencil.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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