shoehorn
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It is hard to shoehorn this spectacle of mass-integration, this enforced loss of crowns and kingdoms, into the idea of partition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
“We didn’t want to shoehorn the songs into the story,” he said, nodding in appreciation at Read.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
I'm a big Marcus Smith fan but there is no room to shoehorn people in at international level.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025
Galveston’s lawyers, though, say the Black and Latino populations are too dispersed to shoehorn in a specific district for them.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
I looked at myself in his metal shoehorn.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
Anthropic's advertisement broadcast during last week's Super Bowl showed a man asking advice from a conversational AI, which then shoehorns advertising copy for a dating site into its otherwise relevant response.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
This has been a quality year — ergo, the following list, presented in random order, shoehorns 18 series into 10 more or less themed slots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
And the way he shoehorns the four-syllable “tarantula” into a three-note phrase is a triumph of enunciation.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
It is a shame the film shoehorns so much of the book into two hours.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2022
And so the film shoehorns in an almost admirably ludicrous explanation for her lack of regard for canine lives, which is to depict a trio of Dalmatians pushing her mother off a balcony.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2021
