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
With fans already facing a dilemma in terms of when to cram in sleep, a delay of even one hour could result in them having to end up missing the game altogether.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
I wouldn’t want to try to cram a child safety seat through that hole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
Retailers are joining the race to cram artificial intelligence absolutely anywhere.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026
They tried to cram the monkeys into hatboxes, but they didn’t fit.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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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
She pries open my head and my fists and crams into them responsibility for time, responsibility for intervening oceans.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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Inside this claustrophobic wooden beast, Odysseus and his wild and bloodthirsty Greeks are crammed cheek-to-sandal so tightly that you can’t imagine how they’ll spring into action without first getting a massage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 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
Because of the awkward proportions of the drawing, about 8-by-1 feet, these churches are almost comically crammed in, like an overpacked suitcase, using every inch of space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
From the floor to ceiling, more than 20,000 books were crammed every which way into shelves they’d built and stained themselves nearly 20 years before.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
To have the freedom to choose my own path based on my strengths instead of being crammed down one that seemed to do nothing but highlight my weaknesses.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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“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
If it seems like Chinese battery-makers are cramming for final exams, they are.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 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 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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