shoehorn

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

I'm a big Marcus Smith fan but there is no room to shoehorn people in at international level.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025

Scott, as usual, also needs to shoehorn meaning that he doesn't know how to produce and erase history that he doesn't know how to replace.

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2024

The sort of films that I feel capable of making, I don’t think I’d be particularly good at trying to shoehorn into something more sensible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

Guides to English grammar were written as pedagogical steppingstones to mastery of Latin grammar, and they tried to shoehorn English constructions into the categories designed for Latin.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

And in recent years, the oftentimes absurd incursion of loanwoards has become satirized in popular culture, with speech that needlessly shoehorns English in at every turn pejoratively referred to as “voguespeak” or “Pangyo dialect.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025

These contrasting views are clearly designed to make a point, but doing so shoehorns him into an argumentative posture that doesn’t always fit his comedy.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

It is a shame the film shoehorns so much of the book into two hours.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2022

Luckily, I had recently purchased two of your quality shoehorns and was able to finish the exam without missing a beat.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2022