cram
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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
With fans already facing a dilemma in terms of when to cram in sleep, a delay of even one hour could result in them having to end up missing the game altogether.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
It also inspired a Peacock streaming show in which Swedes visit America to counsel people who can’t cram anything more into their closets and cupboards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
She sounded as though she was trying to cram everything in as quickly as possible so I could avoid having something awful happen to me.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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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 influx crams even more people into one of Gaza’s most densely populated areas.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
Instead, it’s cultural window dressing while Vardalos crams in one more dull joke about Nick’s manscaping, Greek voodoo or Voula’s sauciness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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
She crams her cookie in her mouth and does not say goodbye to my mother.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Three rooms were crammed with plants growing behind tarpaulin screens under bright lights.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The so-called diversified index funds are crammed with AI.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
But away from the din at the crammed Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, a quieter labor-management battle is unfolding over who controls the sport’s money and how much should go to players.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Staff pushed furniture aside and crammed into the cafeteria inside the company’s sleek, open-air headquarters as executives took the stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Art classes everywhere are sending us big boxes crammed with paper chain to add to ours.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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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
That hasn’t stopped college students cramming for exams together and couples collaborating on work projects from dishing out their passwords.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 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
The delegates “practically lived together,” Bacher recalled, cramming on the technical aspects of test monitoring like grad students preparing for their orals.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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