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
We all cram into the counseling office, and Mom sits in the small chair next to me.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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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
The influx crams even more people into one of Gaza’s most densely populated areas.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
Two older daughters born before Guantánamo both have children, and sometimes the entire family crams into his four-room, state-supported apartment in Carros, a hillside village north of Nice.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 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
Sneaky crams his lunch pack under his arm and we get out of there fast!
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
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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
Damon, Bernthal and up to 25 others crammed into the dank vessel and clung to its cross beams as cold water pumped in and the silo rocked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
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
At the camp, nearly 200 families are crammed into fragile shelters stitched together from straw, torn fabric and sheets of plastic.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
The photos were small because there were at least a dozen of them crammed on the poster, some of them overlapping to show both the front and the back of the style.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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
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
Fixed costs like rent and utilities don’t change, so boosting traffic during slow hours is far more profitable than cramming more customers into already-busy shifts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
She fell to her knees by a banana tree and began cramming the ripe fruit into her mouth.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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