cram
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Parking doesn’t exist, so cars cram onto the sidewalk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
The drone maker could only cram in four packs of conventional lithium-ion batteries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
He is among the 400,000 people expected to cram the causeways, beaches and motel balconies of Florida's Space Coast for the launch attempt of Artemis II tonight.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
She smiled at the baby, who was now trying to cram the fat end of a spoon into its mouth.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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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
The Department of Homeland Security’s intense push to ramp up deportations is dragging in even the dead as it unnerves immigrant households and crams court calendars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 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 four categorised climbs into the final 76km.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2022
Garrett asks, as he crams his hands into those yellow cleaning gloves that squeak when you rub your fingers together.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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Another source of strain: In peacetime, the ports were used for rest and recuperation by sailors seeking a break from an aircraft carrier’s crammed quarters and exhausting routines.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
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
Most of the trailer was empty, but about a third of it was crammed from floor to ceiling with junk.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
China and the United States are locked in a race for dominance in the fast-moving AI field, fuelling huge global expansion of data centres -- warehouse-like facilities crammed with computer servers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
King Bull Sparra crammed the last candied chestnuts into his beak and chomped with evident enjoyment.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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A Home Office spokesperson said: "Smuggling gangs are taking greater risks than ever, with the number of people they are cramming into unseaworthy boats rising year on year."
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 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
Powers had been up since two AM, undergoing medical tests, scarfing down a huge breakfast, and cramming himself into his uncomfortable, pressurized flight suit.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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