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Recent Examples of wedges
Dad opens the door, wedges it with his right foot, slips tokens into the slot.
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Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
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
Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wedges
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Tramon Mark scores 21 points, Matas Vokietaitis (22 points) tops 20 points for the first time in SEC play, and Dailyn Swain stuffs the stat sheet with 14 points, nine rebounds and seven assists.—
Thomas Jones,
Austin American Statesman,
14 Jan. 2026
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Unbeknownst to everyone else, Louise stuffs the turkey costumes with actual exploding meat guts meant to soak the audience in an effort to be released from school early.—
Lillian Brown,
Vulture,
20 Nov. 2023
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As the moon follows an elliptical path, Saturn’s gravity stretches and squeezes it.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Dec. 2025
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View gallery - 12 images This recently completed tiny house squeezes a lot of living space into a compact footprint using clever design.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
27 Nov. 2025
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This team sandwiches seaweed sheets and rice paste into five micro-thin layers; the next steps involve dehydrating, resting, frying and shaping the end result into small cylinders filled with a tiny dice of tuna, or maybe cod milt in the winter.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Jan. 2026
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The Japanese-Style Egg Salad Sandwich sandwiches egg salad made with Kewpie Mayonnaise (a Japanese mayo) between slices of milk bread.—
Sabrina Weiss,
PEOPLE,
4 Dec. 2025
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The user fills the tumbler with water and ice, fits the tumbler with the Ecoldbrew machine, loads the bean hopper (capacity 25 g) with whole beans, uses the rotary dial to set their preferred grind, and enters the brew time on the LED touchscreen.—
Shirl Leigh
January 22,
New Atlas,
22 Jan. 2026
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Simmer ingredients 6 to 7 hours, then blend 2 cups of the soup and return it to the slow cooker—this step thickens the soup without flour and loads it with even more flavor.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
21 Jan. 2026
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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,
14 Nov. 2025
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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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For a band that jams in finger-freezing weather during the Chicago winter, the long lines to get inside Christkindlmarket have been a silver lining.—
Noel Brennan,
CBS News,
28 Nov. 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
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“Wedges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wedges. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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