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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
shoehorn .
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Examples
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The open world genre is one that I feel is underutilized, every game that is released under it's moniker seems to be a third person action title shoehorned into the genre with few exceptions.
Archive 2009-06-01 Josh Bycer 2009
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The biggest problem, I fear, is that the story reads like a high concept "shoehorned" into the 616 Universe.
CIVIL WAAAAH! Marvel Comics, 2007 David Campbell 2007
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American Home and its creditors contend Bear Stearns is trying to stretch the definition of securities contract too far, so that ordinary mortgage servicing contracts can be "shoehorned" into new "safe harbor" provisions in the federal bankruptcy code.
Wall Street Banks Oppose Joseph Rebello 2007
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Liberal Democrats don't manage to alter the voting system it may "reduce the Liberal Democrat commitment to the coalition" into which they were "shoehorned".
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He postulated that bringing the videogame ratings in line with those of film would protect children, reducing the amount of games with mature content "shoehorned" into the current M rating.
Latest from PALGN 2008
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He postulated that bringing the videogame ratings in line with those of film would protect children, reducing the amount of games with mature content "shoehorned" into the current M rating.
Latest from PALGN 2008
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And it's all in 3-D, of course, even if the effects get shoehorned into the narrative: In one sequence, Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson), has to toss tropical berries at the chest of stepfather Hank (Dwayne Johnson), whose overdeveloped pecs propel those berries through the fourth wall.
'Safe House': Familiar Blueprint, Despite Denzel John Anderson 2012
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Having my butt shoehorned in with a bunch of strangers is so much better.
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If you are shoehorned into a particular date (rather than being able to come out say 3 days at a time for 3 or 4 outings across the season) you may or may not have much success calling them in.
Elk Hunting Colorado 2009
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In the end the fancy sink was shoehorned between the shower and a window and there was no room to add storage space anywhere.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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