cramped

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I’m in a cramped examination room at a clinic in Panama City.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

His family moved in with his grandmother, squeezing into a cramped apartment full of aunts, uncles and cousins.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

The rooms that looked spacious on the website, thanks to photos apparently taken with a fish-eye lens, were cramped.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Their cramped and outdated Aspmyra Stadium -- built in 1966 -- can hold just over 8,200 spectators and the team came close to bankruptcy in 2016.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

Flowered curtains hung over the windows, obscuring the outside light, while wooden furniture overflowed the cramped space, the biggest piece of which was a four-poster bed covered with linens that matched the curtains.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley