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cram

[kram] / kræm /




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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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

I wouldn’t want to try to cram a child safety seat through that hole.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

Dan had to cram himself, among the suitcases and blankets, into the seat behind his father.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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 Department of Homeland Security’s intense push to ramp up deportations is dragging in even the dead as it unnerves immigrant households and crams court calendars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025

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

They spoke on a recent day in their Berlin studio as they giggled and tripped over their own stanzas — which exploit a feature of German grammar that crams nouns together into strings of syllables.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2024

But that would have cost an extra $5,000, so everybody crams into the two-door.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Slaughter, however, earned veteran approval long before any cameras were crammed in his face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 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

Distillers’ warehouses are crammed with barrels of aging spirits laid down in better times that fewer people want to drink these days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Looming through the tall windows along the back wall, dark skies were crammed with nimbus clouds.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

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

Teammate Joe Berry recalls cramming for finals on a travel weekend, not getting home until 1 a.m. and having to wake up for an exam at 6 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

“Maybe you need a haircut,” he countered, cramming the bulky headgear into place.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman




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