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[kram] / kræm /




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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

Last year she decamped to a famous cram center in her home state of Rajasthan.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

We were up in her room, at her desk, ostensibly to cram for her home school chem test.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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

From his scenes on, the script crams in as many groaners as it can.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2025

The influx crams even more people into one of Gaza’s most densely populated areas.

From Seattle Times Dec. 29, 2023

A short but demanding mountain stage which crams six categorised climbs into about 100km as the race dashes across the Vosges to the Le Markstein ski station.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2023

Then Dad crams some phony cheer into his voice and says, "Hey, who knows? Everything could be back to normal in half an hour. But no matter what, we tell no one. Agreed?"

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

Hundreds of people crammed into the school gym that April evening, and the debate over Point Reyes agitated into a low boil.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

The applause duly began before the famous door opened, so the first sight and sound to greet Andy Burnham and his wife were crowds of clapping staff, crammed into the Downing Street hall.

From BBC Jul. 27, 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

Thousands of Malawians have crammed into a field in the South African city of Durban in dire conditions, desperate to return home and escape a wave of violence against foreigners.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

I glanced over at a bulletin board on the opposite wall crammed with photographs of all kinds of pets.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The diggers were efficient, cramming in so many graves that, from above, the field near the University of Sudan’s medical campus looked like a frieze of an undulating, gravel-brown sea.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 12, 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

They gathered in clusters at the corners, chatting and teasing and cramming for tests, until the green and gold buses chugged into view and the doors snapped open.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose




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