cram
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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
A record crowd of close to 180,000 people is expected to cram into Silverstone for the British Grand Prix on Sunday.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
It also inspired a Peacock streaming show in which Swedes visit America to counsel people who can’t cram anything more into their closets and cupboards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
We can barely cram in all their things—the red velvet furniture and lamps and clothes and kitchen utensils and crocheted doilies.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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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
Instead, it’s cultural window dressing while Vardalos crams in one more dull joke about Nick’s manscaping, Greek voodoo or Voula’s sauciness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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
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
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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
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
We cannot get the houses built fast enough, and we are crammed together almost the way we were on the ’tween deck of the Susan Constant.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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A Home Office spokesperson said this latest incident demonstrated the "reckless and dangerous tactics employed by criminal gangs... who continue to put lives at risk by cramming ever greater numbers of people onto unseaworthy vessels".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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
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
Harry ran flat-out toward the bathroom on the floor below, cramming Ron’s copy of Advanced Potion-Making into his bag as he did so.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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