What is "shoehorned"

Usage examples of "shoehorned".

For several decades during the Stalinist period and its aftermath, research on brain and behaviour in the Soviet Union became shoehorned into Pavlovian orthodoxy, despite the presence of new generations of researchers who, while prepared to give Pavlov credit for his undoubted achievements, sought to break loose theoretically.

But instead of exposing media bias, the facts had to be shoehorned into a different theory.