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as in to bump
to come into usually forceful contact with something
the truck suddenly swerved and rammed into the side of a building
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as in to speed
to proceed or move quickly
I threw myself out of the way as a car rammed through the crosswalk
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Recent Examples of ram
The man drove about 800 meters on the Tongil Bridge, the last border checkpoint where civilians can go without a special permit, before ramming into barricades, South Korea’s Gyeonggi Bukbu Provincial Police told CNN.
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Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
Someone forced entry into a storage building by ramming the roll up door.
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11:35 p.m. at White Oaks Road and Camden Avenue: A driver, 48, collided with the center median.
—Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024
Two northbound lanes on I-465, just north of the I-70 interchange on Indianapolis' east side, remained closed through Sunday morning after a driver rammed into the back of a parked semi, ISP Sgt.
—Jordan Smith, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2024
According to court documents, Johnson reversed and rammed into an ATF car.
—Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2024
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Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
Someone forced entry into a storage building by ramming the roll up door.
Oct. 11
11:35 p.m. at White Oaks Road and Camden Avenue: A driver, 48, collided with the center median.
—Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024
Two northbound lanes on I-465, just north of the I-70 interchange on Indianapolis' east side, remained closed through Sunday morning after a driver rammed into the back of a parked semi, ISP Sgt.
—Jordan Smith, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2024
According to court documents, Johnson reversed and rammed into an ATF car.
—Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ram
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But no team has bumped, set, and spiked in recent years with more authority than Merino.Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2024
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But this year’s election cycle has been decidedly quieter for bumping the national threshold to $15 an hour.Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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There was just too much info crammed into an interface that didn't quite work on my phone.Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Hundreds of thousands of people are crammed into tent camps along the coast after entire neighborhoods in many areas were pounded to rubble.Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
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Three years later, wildlife experts enlisted a team of local helpers for just 24 hours to speed up the area’s environmental recovery.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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Continue to speed up the container, and more of these perfect tornadoes will slither in from the rim.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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All Zemeckis needs to do now is, ironically, convince the studio that has apparently been banging down his door.Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Once the doors were closed, various musical instruments, including a guitar and a trumpet, started playing and banging against the cabinet’s walls.Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
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For the third time this season, Jojo calmly squeezed the trigger and neatly folded the first tom.Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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These new prices would squeeze consumer budgets, especially for low-income households that spend triple as much of their monthly budgets on apparel as high-income households spend, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Annie Nova,Rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
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Micaela Hanning, Crean Lutheran: The transfer from Calvary Chapel is an explosive point guard who can strike from the perimeter and drive to the basket.Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 7 Nov. 2024
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In 2021, Gonzalez-Nunez allegedly drove a car in a sideshow while his girlfriend hung out of the window with an miniature AK-47.Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Bell, who entered a corner at excessive speed and collided with the wall, faced penalties that demoted him from 18th to 22nd place, costing him a spot in the Championship 4.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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These ejections can collide with Earth’s magnetosphere, the barrier protecting humanity from the harshest impacts of space weather, to produce geomagnetic storms.Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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Martha Stewart thought snow peas individually stuffed with cream cheese made an elegant dinner party side.Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
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The zucchini is a personal favorite, but a must-order is a side of their pane bianco stuffed with mortadella.Roger Sands, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Ram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ram. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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