shoehorn
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It is no mean feat to shoehorn a half-millennium of social, political and economic tumult into a single volume.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 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
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
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
They made me remember that guy David and the shoehorn.
From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson
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
