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People I spoke with lamented a childhood filled with academic stress: cram school tutoring, studying well into the night and China’s make-or-break gaokao university entrance examination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Soldiers cram into tunnels with a diameter of around 4 feet, sleeping in bunkers that are cut through the side of these steel tunnels, Ukrainian troops say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

Souvenirs, like Las Vegas snow globes, cram the shelves, and plastic shields everything—the carpet, the lamps, even the TV.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

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

The influx crams even more people into one of Gaza’s most densely populated areas.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

No matter how many ideas it crams into its quick-paced plot, it’s doomed to fall short of representing an entire group of people — and it knows it shouldn’t have to.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

Then Dad crams some phony cheer into his voice and says, "Hey, who knows? Everything could be back to normal in half an hour. But no matter what, we tell no one. Agreed?"

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

This summer, more than 102,000 paying customers crammed into Kyle Field at Texas A&M to watch the Bananas’ wholesome blend of athleticism and absurdity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Three rooms were crammed with plants growing behind tarpaulin screens under bright lights.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

The family had fled their home in Gaza City soon after the war began, crammed into a tent in the enclave’s south.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Beyond the main boulevard, the city was a hodgepodge of medieval castle towers, Roman walls, limestone town houses with red-tiled roofs, and modern office buildings all crammed together.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

The fate of a franchise depends on cramming them into a vast, complex puzzle of resource allocation that’s harder to navigate than a swimming pool in a straitjacket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

“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

Together they went to the fruit trees, carrying their spears, saying little, cramming in haste.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding