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Recent Examples of shoehorn
The matches are shoehorned into the tournaments, often on outer courts and at odd times.
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Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025
In a movie full of overwrought conversations and shoehorned interactions, perhaps that’s the lesson.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
Disney is hardly new to the business of calculated nostalgia, but the way this film shoehorns in Chad Michael Murray’s character, Jake — despite it making zero plot sense to pull Anna’s former high school flame back into the story — seems particularly shameless.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
Microsoft hasn’t announced a new voice assistant yet, but third-party developers have introduced browser plugins that shoehorn this capability into ChatGPT.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2023
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Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025
In a movie full of overwrought conversations and shoehorned interactions, perhaps that’s the lesson.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
Disney is hardly new to the business of calculated nostalgia, but the way this film shoehorns in Chad Michael Murray’s character, Jake — despite it making zero plot sense to pull Anna’s former high school flame back into the story — seems particularly shameless.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
Microsoft hasn’t announced a new voice assistant yet, but third-party developers have introduced browser plugins that shoehorn this capability into ChatGPT.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoehorn
Verb
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Blanton says detainees were routinely denied their medication and were crammed into overcrowded cells.—
Jonathan Bernstein,
Rolling Stone,
10 Oct. 2025
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Riders crammed armpit to nostril on train platforms.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Freeman took rookie Chad Patrick deep for the first Dodgers run, and his teammates squeezed a second run out of Brewers closer Abner Uribe in the ninth.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
14 Oct. 2025
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Nara announced the cute name in a post on her Instagram showing little Fawnie curled up in soft blankets, along with a video clip squeezing her tiny hand.—
Sarah Scott,
Parents,
14 Oct. 2025
Verb
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On Sunday, Jeanty was stopped for a loss or no gain on four of his 10 runs against light boxes, and overall, the Las Vegas Raiders were stuffed 11 times on 29 attempts — the most of any team in a game this season.—
Vic Tafur,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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All thirty-six members of D’Angelo‘s touring band and crew are stuffed into his dressing room, hands linked, heads bowed in a large prayer circle.—
Touré,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Shoehorn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoehorn. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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