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  • verb Present participle of cram.

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Examples

  • "Consumers don't often know what the word 'cramming' means, but they know what it's like to get an unauthorized charge on their phone bills," said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski .

    Phone-Bill Rules Target 'Cramming' Amy Schatz 2011

  • Essentially do what they call cramming down some of these mortgage loans and allowing homeowners to have some of their loans forgiven.

    CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2008 2008

  • Anyone who believes that what Pelosi and Obama are cramming is in anyway reform for the better are SERIOUSLY mistaken.

    Pelosi vows to move ahead on health care 2009

  • One of the how-to books by comics pros that I read in cramming for this process was Peter David's Writing for Comics.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • The final Dangerfield-esque end of term cramming by the NHC may yet get us to Alpha! steven mosher

    Hurricanes 2007 « Climate Audit 2007

  • The days before these ordeals take place are spent in cramming your mind with mystic formulæ and indigestible dates – unpalatable diets, until you wish that books and science and you were buried in the depths of the sea.

    The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905

  • The practice of lumping such unauthorized charges onto bills, either by phone companies or third parties like chat lines or psychic readings, is known as "cramming."

    SFGate: Top News Stories James Temple 2011

  • The practice of lumping such unauthorized charges onto bills, either by phone companies or third parties like chat lines or psychic readings, is known as "cramming."

    SFGate: Top News Stories James Temple 2011

  • It is feared that modular exams get in the way of teaching time and promote a culture of short-term cramming instead of a proper understanding of subjects.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Graeme Paton 2011

  • - It is a difficult exam and one that is not forgiving of short term cramming 22 TAP, LLC© 2005

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

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