tight squeeze
noun
: a situation in which people or things are very crowded together
It'll be a tight squeeze, but we can all fit in one car.
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The Capitol rotunda was a tight squeeze — roughly 600 people — denying lawmakers the chance to sit with their families.
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Axios, 20 Jan. 2025
Snug in a fabric cradle where handlers appreciated his history as a chill dude, Lil Joe ascended in a tight squeeze through a skylight toward the inky black of 2 a.m. overhead.
—Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2025
But a one-week tournament with 128 singles players and 80 doubles teams across the genders is already a tight squeeze, and then rain washed out all but 10 matches on the covered stadium courts on the tournament’s opening day.
—Zack Pierce, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
The roomette and bedroom options can each fit up to two adults (although the former can be a tight squeeze), and the bedroom suite combines two adjoining rooms.
—Jean Trinh, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
The cheapest $100 Android phones come with at least 32GB of storage now, and even that will be a tight squeeze for many users.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2024
If a 90-minute window seems like a tight squeeze for all the action that’s been promised — not to mention the participants who haven’t been publicly revealed yet — Collins vows the run of show is crisp and tight.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2024
Julie asks Jake to keep it a secret, which is met with a light kiss, a tight squeeze, and a resolve to get Mama Jay out for being hostile.
—Lisa Kwon, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2024
The defense also maintained its tight squeeze on UNCW’s shooters, who connected on only 22.2% (2-for-9) of their 3-pointers and went 5:16 without a point.
—Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2024
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Axios, 20 Jan. 2025
Snug in a fabric cradle where handlers appreciated his history as a chill dude, Lil Joe ascended in a tight squeeze through a skylight toward the inky black of 2 a.m. overhead.
—Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2025
But a one-week tournament with 128 singles players and 80 doubles teams across the genders is already a tight squeeze, and then rain washed out all but 10 matches on the covered stadium courts on the tournament’s opening day.
—Zack Pierce, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
The roomette and bedroom options can each fit up to two adults (although the former can be a tight squeeze), and the bedroom suite combines two adjoining rooms.
—Jean Trinh, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
The cheapest $100 Android phones come with at least 32GB of storage now, and even that will be a tight squeeze for many users.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2024
If a 90-minute window seems like a tight squeeze for all the action that’s been promised — not to mention the participants who haven’t been publicly revealed yet — Collins vows the run of show is crisp and tight.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2024
Julie asks Jake to keep it a secret, which is met with a light kiss, a tight squeeze, and a resolve to get Mama Jay out for being hostile.
—Lisa Kwon, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2024
The defense also maintained its tight squeeze on UNCW’s shooters, who connected on only 22.2% (2-for-9) of their 3-pointers and went 5:16 without a point.
—Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2024
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