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Recent Examples of wedgesDad opens the door, wedges it with his right foot, slips tokens into the slot.—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
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.
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Thomas Jones,
Austin American Statesman,
14 Jan. 2026
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.
All this requires a lot of power, which puts a strain on the grid and squeezes local resources.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Feb. 2026
Instead, in order to protect their identities, their words are read aloud during re-enactments by powerhouse actresses such as Emma Thompson (who squeezes herself beneath an axle) and Kate Dickie (performing, as the nurse, on all fours on Kenmure Street itself).
Thank the aluminum alloy construction, which sandwiches a beech and poplar TrueBlend core and provides tons of stability at speed.
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Benjamin Tepler,
Outside,
23 Jan. 2026
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.
Instead, the show crams everything into a space that can't hold it, culminating in this past third season that exploded with too much of practically everything.
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Matthew Razak,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
Television has always relied on big, gasp-inducing moments, but Murphy crams them in even at the expense of narrative cohesion.
That crud jams up the works of your coffee maker, slows brewing down, and impacts the taste of your morning brew.
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Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
16 Feb. 2026
The move effectively jams the upper chamber by including the repeal in the funding package without the necessary time to reverse course, giving the Senate no option but to approve it.