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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

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

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

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

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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