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Recent Examples of shoehorn
Instead, the creative team is shoehorning a third party into what had previously been singles rivalries.
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Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
The point is not to have anxiety over optics or to shoehorn in restaurants that are not yet ready.
—Timothy Depeugh, Charlotte Observer, 3 Apr. 2025
The need to shoehorn multiple wrestlers into a match undermines the credibility and impact of the WrestleMania card.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Microsoft’s attempts to shoehorn users into creating Microsoft accounts have already attracted plenty of criticism.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 29 Mar. 2025
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Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
The point is not to have anxiety over optics or to shoehorn in restaurants that are not yet ready.
—Timothy Depeugh, Charlotte Observer, 3 Apr. 2025
The need to shoehorn multiple wrestlers into a match undermines the credibility and impact of the WrestleMania card.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Microsoft’s attempts to shoehorn users into creating Microsoft accounts have already attracted plenty of criticism.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 29 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoehorn
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Hundreds of townspeople and visitors crammed into the red-brick Rhea County Courthouse to witness the trial.—
Dan Falk,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 May 2025
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While the hostage spends most of the movie off-camera, his abductors are crammed into frames that contain all of their perspectives without privileging any of them.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
Verb
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Umberto Rispoli squeezed between horses around the top of the stretch and then rode Journalism to a tremendous rally.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
24 May 2025
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Martinez’s son squeezed the trigger five times, shooting Rivera to death and wounding two others, the detective wrote in the affidavit.—
Matthew Ormseth,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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Agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) also seized three cellphones found inside a Balenciaga boot, a Gucci pouch stuffed with ketamine and MDMA and a .45-caliber handgun discovered tucked away in a red suitcase.—
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025
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The resulting confusion is a good reminder about how many provisions can be stuffed in a single bill, presenting challenges for writers (like this one), voters (like you), and members of Congress.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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“Shoehorn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoehorn. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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