cram
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I had to cram 15, 16 years of medical experience into a week before we started shooting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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
Retailers are joining the race to cram artificial intelligence absolutely anywhere.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026
On top of that, there has been a less sharp—but steady—increase in demand for all other applications, as device makers cram in ever more memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026
Bodies cram every centimeter below deck, then every centimeter on deck.
From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai
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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
These missions are incredibly expensive, so Isobel crams in experiments night and day as the scientists work in 12-hour shifts.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2025
The influx crams even more people into one of Gaza’s most densely populated areas.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
She crams into a trailer with her 11-year-old daughter and her adult son, as well as her adult daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2023
But that would have cost an extra $5,000, so everybody crams into the two-door.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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The resulting album, titled Music, Fashion, Film, is smart, self-referential, funny, antagonistic and crammed full of moments to stimulate your inner earworm.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
You could see how they crammed into Westminster Hall to surround him for a giant photo on his first day back in Parliament.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Options traders are bracing for what could be a very busy few days as a number of potentially market-moving developments are being crammed into a shortened four-day trading week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Around 50 people huddled over large buckets of food at the tiny Gansbaai mosque, which was crammed with people and belongings, sharing one toilet and a single tap.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
When Boo had mentioned a council, Aru had imagined stern summer camp counselors...not the very people from the myths and tales that had been crammed into her head since she was a toddler.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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Food makers are cramming protein into everything from chips to bread and candy bars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 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
KHARTOUM, Sudan — The diggers were efficient, cramming in so many graves that, from above, the field near the University of Sudan’s medical campus looked like a frieze of an undulating, gravel-brown sea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
If a public campaign were to be launched – it would have to be done carefully and strategically to avoid cramming too much information into the message while still informing the public.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 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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