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[kram] / kræm /




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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

Some contestants take that as a challenge to cram as many ideas as possible into their allotted time.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

We can barely cram in all their things—the red velvet furniture and lamps and clothes and kitchen utensils and crocheted doilies.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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 six categorised climbs into about 100km as the race dashes across the Vosges to the Le Markstein ski station.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2023

But that would have cost an extra $5,000, so everybody crams into the two-door.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Along the way, they reinvented stadium concerts with the Zoo TV tour, whose stage was crammed full of multimedia screens and satellite feeds, while Bono made nightly prank calls to the White House.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The so-called diversified index funds are crammed with AI.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 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

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

And when I tap it, the famous unibrow is crammed into the frame of my phone screen.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Maybe it’s just a matter of time that the Chargers don’t have much of, cramming to learn McDaniel’s methods, to dial in the timing and coordination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

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

If it seems like Chinese battery-makers are cramming for final exams, they are.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

It was like cramming for a test without knowing the subject.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan




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