wedge

as in to squeeze
to fit (people or things) into a tight space managed to wedge one last book onto the bookshelf

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Recent Examples of wedge Because they were wedged in, Jim and Frank stayed in place while a technician worked to bring the camera back to life. Bill Prady, Variety, 3 May 2025 And sleeping in your lenses can also lead them to get wedged up underneath your eyelids or shoved to the side, Dr. Brisette adds. Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 30 Apr. 2025 The shocking X-ray images of the injury show the needle wedged in Georgia’s foot. Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 22 Apr. 2025 Her own unique take on neo pointillism is a way to wedge herself into art history. Nadja Sayej, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wedge
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  • Custom Container Living View 8 Images Custom Container Living has transformed a shipping container into an ultra-compact tiny house that squeezes a home for two into just 160 sq ft (14.8 sq m).
    Adam Williams May 08, New Atlas, 8 May 2025
  • Officials hope that increased lending and spending will help ease deflationary pressures that have dragged down prices, squeezed company profits, and weakened consumer confidence.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
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  • They were bullied, beaten, humiliated, tortured and shot, with productive laborers crammed on top of one another in the dirty stone barracks—separately from the Jewish prisoners, whose numbers grew ever larger.
    Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
  • From a purely materialistic point of view, becoming a parent means transitioning into an existence crammed with a mind-boggling amount of stuff—stuff to acquire, assemble and incorporate into your (increasingly hectic) daily routine.
    Darryn King, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
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  • The marinated turkey or chicken is stuffed into a French roll intended to soak up the recipe’s recaudo or marinade, along with slices of tomato, cucumber, radishes and sprigs of watercress.
    Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
  • So many dogs were stuffed into the small Woodside home Thursday morning that some were found cowering in closets and kitchen cupboards, said officials from Animal Care Centers of NYC, who rescued the animals with the ASPCA.
    Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 10 May 2025
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  • The Line, the most ambitious piece of Neom, was unveiled as a pair of parallel 500-meter-tall skyscrapers stretching through the desert, with infrastructure, residences and public places all sandwiched within a 200-meter width.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • From here the city unfurls itself at your feet: a narrow isthmus sandwiched between two major harbors—the Manukau and the Waitematā.
    Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
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  • Invest in backpacks with luggage sleeves and load them up with essentials for the flight: a change of clothes, something warm, hand sanitizer, diapers, wet wipes, snacks, coloring books, and non-noisy, mess-free toys.
    Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2025
  • Roughly a dozen aquarium staff gathered at the Apollo Beach lab on May 7 to pack and load the corals into a moving truck bound for the Florida Keys.
    Max Chesnes, Sun Sentinel, 18 May 2025
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  • When not doing his military duties, Holden could be seen playing the drums, jamming with fellow musicians in the Den Room of the Hotel Texas.
    Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 May 2025
  • Kasperi Kapanen jammed in a rebound on the goal line to win it for the Oilers seven minutes into OT.
    Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 15 May 2025

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“Wedge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wedge. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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