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cram

[kram] / kræm /




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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

I had to cram 15, 16 years of medical experience into a week before we started shooting.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Last year she decamped to a famous cram center in her home state of Rajasthan.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

He is among the 400,000 people expected to cram the causeways, beaches and motel balconies of Florida's Space Coast for the launch attempt of Artemis II tonight.

From BBC Mar. 31, 2026

“If you make room, they’ll just cram more people in here.”

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

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

We don't necessarily need to come up with a wildcard formation that crams all the new signings into the same team.

From BBC Jul. 29, 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

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

From Seattle Times Dec. 29, 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

Another source of strain: In peacetime, the ports were used for rest and recuperation by sailors seeking a break from an aircraft carrier’s crammed quarters and exhausting routines.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2026

Most of the trailer was empty, but about a third of it was crammed from floor to ceiling with junk.

From BBC Aug. 6, 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

Chip stacks fused with hybrid bonding have smaller gaps between layers than those fused via less-expensive thermal compression bonding, allowing more memory to be crammed into a smaller space.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

When Boo had mentioned a council, Aru had imagined stern summer camp counselors...not the very people from the myths and tales that had been crammed into her head since she was a toddler.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

A Home Office spokesperson said: "Smuggling gangs are taking greater risks than ever, with the number of people they are cramming into unseaworthy boats rising year on year."

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

The idea of cramming players into the box to create scoring opportunities from set pieces is nothing new, of course.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 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

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

Powers had been up since two AM, undergoing medical tests, scarfing down a huge breakfast, and cramming himself into his uncomfortable, pressurized flight suit.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau




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