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Google, a big rival, is also shoehorning AI into office apps, including Gmail and Google Docs.
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Will Knight, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2024
This enables your team members to craft their own paths, not be passively shoehorned into an ill-fitting role that stunts their performance (and the company’s).
—Pat McKenna, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
With the biggest award of the night still to come – video of the year, congratulations Taylor Swift – the hip-hop gathering felt shoehorned rather than celebrated.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
And the quality that made the trailer moment so iconic, its determination to shoehorn as many clauses as possible into one sentence, does speak to a line that was likely ADR’d in after shooting to make the backstory crystal clear to potential viewers.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2024
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Will Knight, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2024
This enables your team members to craft their own paths, not be passively shoehorned into an ill-fitting role that stunts their performance (and the company’s).
—Pat McKenna, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
With the biggest award of the night still to come – video of the year, congratulations Taylor Swift – the hip-hop gathering felt shoehorned rather than celebrated.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
And the quality that made the trailer moment so iconic, its determination to shoehorn as many clauses as possible into one sentence, does speak to a line that was likely ADR’d in after shooting to make the backstory crystal clear to potential viewers.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoehorn
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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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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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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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“Shoehorn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoehorn. Accessed 20 Nov. 2024.
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