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Recent Examples of wedge
The 16-month-old girl died April 8, 2025, from what the Medical Examiner’s Office ruled was accidental asphyxia after her head got wedged between a plastic cot and a crib’s railing.
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City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Brown tries to wedge a pass into Jokić, who never touches the basketball.
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Hoboken is a dense urban settlement of sixty-five thousand wedged between the river to the east and the three-hundred-foot-tall Palisades to the west.
—Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
These plants and fungi have been left to co-evolve, alone but together, for millions of years, wedged between mountain and sea as if on a remote island.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
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City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Brown tries to wedge a pass into Jokić, who never touches the basketball.
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Hoboken is a dense urban settlement of sixty-five thousand wedged between the river to the east and the three-hundred-foot-tall Palisades to the west.
—Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
These plants and fungi have been left to co-evolve, alone but together, for millions of years, wedged between mountain and sea as if on a remote island.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wedge
Verb
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When picking your own, avoid squeezing the berries.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
25 Apr. 2026
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That’s way too much time to squeeze into a mere 140 minutes.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2026
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What takes years of planning for many restaurateurs is crammed into this tiny timeframe, complete with design choices, menu creation and shopping, and on top of that, an actual restaurant service.—
Heidi Finley,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Apr. 2026
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Hundreds of residents crammed into City Hall, filling multiple overflow rooms.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
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Sturm was trying to formulate an answer for why his team stuffed an amateur hour’s worth of bumbles into Sunday’s opening 20 minutes.—
Fluto Shinzawa,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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Of course, no seder would be complete without everyone sitting at the table at the end of the night, totally stuffed and maybe a little tipsy, to chat and gossip about everyday life.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
24 Apr. 2026
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Crunchy oatmeal cookies sandwich a thin layer of chocolate.—
Alex Beggs,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
25 Apr. 2026
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The Golden State—the fourth-largest economy in the world—essentially operates as an island sandwiched between the Pacific Ocean on one side and mountainous terrain on the other.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
24 Apr. 2026
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Wednesday’s game, in particular, ended in extremely bizarre fashion with Xavier Edwards turning an unusual unassisted double play with the bases loaded and Freddie Freeman at the plate.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
30 Apr. 2026
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The Patriots blew the game open with a six-run fifth, including an RBI single from Lindsay and one walk and one hit batter with the bases loaded to push across runs.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Though the third installment of the fest has been cut down from 11 days to six, the amount of talent jammed into that week doesn’t appear to have slimmed down much at all.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
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Today’s stars go to war with haters, but Dylan takes aim at venerators, seeking to jam the gears of a hagiography machine that’s been clanking and wheezing since 1962.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Wedge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wedge. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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