shoehorn
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It is no mean feat to shoehorn a half-millennium of social, political and economic tumult into a single volume.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
“We didn’t want to shoehorn the songs into the story,” he said, nodding in appreciation at Read.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
What Elon Musk Thought has in common with earlier techno-futurist disasters is the attempt to shoehorn that messiness and complexity into a more “efficient” monoculture to achieve his utopian vision.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2025
I'm a big Marcus Smith fan but there is no room to shoehorn people in at international level.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025
They made me remember that guy David and the shoehorn.
From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson
Anthropic's advertisement broadcast during last week's Super Bowl showed a man asking advice from a conversational AI, which then shoehorns advertising copy for a dating site into its otherwise relevant response.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
These contrasting views are clearly designed to make a point, but doing so shoehorns him into an argumentative posture that doesn’t always fit his comedy.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
It is a shame the film shoehorns so much of the book into two hours.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2022
On top of Duncan’s legal battle, Buirski shoehorns Perez’s case against Sobol, accusing him of unlawfully practicing law by defending Duncan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2021
And so the film shoehorns in an almost admirably ludicrous explanation for her lack of regard for canine lives, which is to depict a trio of Dalmatians pushing her mother off a balcony.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2021
