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
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
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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
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
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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
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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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