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cram

[kram] / kræm /




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Some 600,000 Catholic faithful are expected to cram the avenue up to the Arc de Triomphe and beyond.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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

Instead of trying to make transistors smaller, the company laid out a method for stacking circuits to cram more computing power into a single chip footprint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

I had to cram 15, 16 years of medical experience into a week before we started shooting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Alex wanted to cram everything he’d ever thought of doing with a dog into that morning.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers

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

We don't necessarily need to come up with a wildcard formation that crams all the new signings into the same team.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 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

She crams her cookie in her mouth and does not say goodbye to my mother.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

This summer, more than 102,000 paying customers crammed into Kyle Field at Texas A&M to watch the Bananas’ wholesome blend of athleticism and absurdity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Eight dogs that were among 250 found crammed into one room have been reunited as they continue on their road to recovery.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Herman, a former professor in UCLA’s painting and drawing department and co-founder of the now-defunct Black Dragon Society gallery in Chinatown, lives with the work of his former students and friends crammed throughout his home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

He issued last-minute instructions to staff, and when ten people had crammed themselves into the cab or the bed of the pickup, needing a ride to various destinations, we departed the complex.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

The fate of a franchise depends on cramming them into a vast, complex puzzle of resource allocation that’s harder to navigate than a swimming pool in a straitjacket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

He says he does not want to share his name as he stands among the crowds cramming into vantage points for a view of Chongqing's neon-lit, stacked skyline.

From BBC ● May 12, 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

“It’s not like the campaign for governor, where cramming 10 candidates on a stage becomes a circus.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

The delegates “practically lived together,” Bacher recalled, cramming on the technical aspects of test monitoring like grad students preparing for their orals.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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