wedges

present tense third-person singular of wedge
as in stuffs
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 wedges With the confidence of someone who knows that he is well loved, the 145-pound dog wedges himself right between his two owners, sprawling out and enjoying a cuddle. Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
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  • As Arizona squeezes more money from its decreasing share of river water, freighting every drop with critical industries and a booming housing market, the price of water is bound to keep climbing.
    Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The country’s geography squeezes a wild variety into a tight map.
    William Jones, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
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  • This technology has taken more than a decade to develop and consists of a three-layer diaphragm that sandwiches a soft foam layer between two layers of blended paper, resin and ZYLON, the high-performance material used in Yamaha’s flagship hi-fi speakers.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Despite taking in eight to 12 tractor trailer loads a day, Cooper said the demand for food items is greater than the supply, so the inventory is starting to shrink.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2025
  • At the Guigò Lab of the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, a technician loads a sample into a genome sequencing machine.
    Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The Nutribullet Ultra crams a 1200-watt motor into its rather slim casing; that’s double the wattage of the Nutribullet Pro blender that’s a step down.
    Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Moreover, the study’s methodology crams certain ideologies under one umbrella that otherwise would not fit neatly into a political classification.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 22 Sep. 2025
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  • Traffic regularly jams the freeway into the city, and residents fight over efforts to build more homes.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Someone breaks in, someone jams the signal from the home’s alarm system, someone monitors police radio traffic.
    Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Aug. 2025

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“Wedges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wedges. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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