cramped
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Cooking with firewood or coal is unsafe in cramped rooms in slums.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
I’m in a cramped examination room at a clinic in Panama City.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
The pair, who live in a cramped studio apartment in a crumbling colonial-era building, can’t afford butter or mayonnaise, so breakfast is a piece of plain bread.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026
The rooms that looked spacious on the website, thanks to photos apparently taken with a fish-eye lens, were cramped.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
The CIA's Moscow station was a windowless office—a "box," she called it, because the space was so cramped.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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