shoehorn
noun
shoehorns
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pluralof shoehorn.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Anthropic's advertisement broadcast during last week's Super Bowl showed a man asking advice from a conversational AI, which then shoehorns advertising copy for a dating site into its otherwise relevant response.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
And in recent years, the oftentimes absurd incursion of loanwoards has become satirized in popular culture, with speech that needlessly shoehorns English in at every turn pejoratively referred to as “voguespeak” or “Pangyo dialect.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
Like most jukeboxes, “The Heart of Rock and Roll” shoehorns big hits, including “The Power of Love” and “Stuck With You,” with lesser-known tracks into a plot generic enough to accommodate them.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
It is a shame the film shoehorns so much of the book into two hours.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2022
And so the film shoehorns in an almost admirably ludicrous explanation for her lack of regard for canine lives, which is to depict a trio of Dalmatians pushing her mother off a balcony.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2021
