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cram

[kram] / kræm /




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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

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

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

“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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