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Recent Examples of shoehorn
For a company that once famously swore off commercials, Netflix sure shoehorns in as much self-advertising as possible.
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Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
Since then, these standalone console titles have mostly disappeared, been shoehorned into an Ultimate Team mode or moved to mobile.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 14 Mar. 2026
That bill was watered down, however, and eventually got shoehorned into the one that passed Friday.
—Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 7 Mar. 2026
The best of the genre allow for more complexity than this one and don’t try quite so hard to shoehorn so much into 90 minutes.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
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Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
Since then, these standalone console titles have mostly disappeared, been shoehorned into an Ultimate Team mode or moved to mobile.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 14 Mar. 2026
That bill was watered down, however, and eventually got shoehorned into the one that passed Friday.
—Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 7 Mar. 2026
The best of the genre allow for more complexity than this one and don’t try quite so hard to shoehorn so much into 90 minutes.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoehorn
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Instead of cramming an itinerary, dark sky travelers often build trips around a single celestial event or a multi-night stay somewhere remote enough to actually see the stars.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
12 May 2026
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The flexible upper also allows for some stretch, so your feet won’t ever feel like they’re crammed into the shoe.—
Jasmine Gomez,
Travel + Leisure,
11 May 2026
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It was triggered, in his telling, by the record oil price spike of June 2008, which forced ordinary households to absorb more than $2,000 in additional energy costs on top of adjustable-rate mortgage resets that were already squeezing them.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
9 May 2026
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Gas prices, housing costs and groceries are squeezing people who are working hard yet still falling behind.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 May 2026
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Plant life may manifest at your table scorched, deep-fried, pickled, smoked, stuffed, smashed or otherwise pushed to extremes.—
Ligaya Mishan,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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Marcelin also stuffed part of the victim’s left leg into his electric wheelchair and went shopping before disposing of the limb.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
8 May 2026
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“Shoehorn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoehorn. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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