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Recent Examples of shoehorn
For years, women’s health startups had to shoehorn their solutions into the narrow definitions of femtech or reproductive care to get investor attention.
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Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
World soccer’s calendar is already saturated beyond breaking point and shoehorning another major tournament in the summer does very little to allay concerns over players’ welfare.
—Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Aster shoehorns all manner of hot-button topics: identity politics, social media silos, false flag attacks, and the allure of conspiracy theories, all facilitated by the wholesale erosion of truth in the digital age.
—Thomas Page, CNN Money, 17 May 2025
If Congress succeeds in shoehorning all these ideas into a single piece of legislation, some households will be happy to get a lower tax bill.
—Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
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Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
World soccer’s calendar is already saturated beyond breaking point and shoehorning another major tournament in the summer does very little to allay concerns over players’ welfare.
—Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Aster shoehorns all manner of hot-button topics: identity politics, social media silos, false flag attacks, and the allure of conspiracy theories, all facilitated by the wholesale erosion of truth in the digital age.
—Thomas Page, CNN Money, 17 May 2025
If Congress succeeds in shoehorning all these ideas into a single piece of legislation, some households will be happy to get a lower tax bill.
—Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoehorn
Verb
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The few health centers and nutrition treatment centers that are still functioning are crammed with people as cholera cases continue to climb.—
Maryanne Murray Buechner,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Halle hunched nervously between the runners as we were crammed together at the start line.—
Ula Chrobak,
Outside,
9 Aug. 2025
Verb
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To squeeze all this into exactly 100 days between Wrexham staging a promotion party after last season had ended and Tuesday’s cup tie against Hull is impressive.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025
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Ewers was impressive finding A.J. Henning on one throw and squeezed a pass into a tight window to running back Ollie Gordon II.—
David Furones,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Thierry notified me of his satisfaction with another grunt and reached into the pillowy recesses of his fleece to produce a tatty padded envelope stuffed with Euros.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Aug. 2025
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Hasty got stuffed twice at the line, while the rest of the backs were stonewalled once apiece.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Shoehorn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoehorn. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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