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The phrase "almost crowded" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a place is nearing full capacity but not quite there yet.
Example: "The café was almost crowded, with just a few empty tables left."
Alternatives: "nearly full" or "close to capacity".
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The loose-limbed Bernstein, all elbows and shoulders, almost crowded his partner off the bench, but Mr. Thomas hung on gamely.
In fact, he is almost crowded into our presence, nudged forward by the fussy presence of the curtain at his back.
On a shelf behind the sofa there is a photograph of Clive in uniform, almost crowded out by the medals that share the frame.
Skate was almost crowded off the plate by a quinoa cake, a sauce infused with sake lees, and an ice-cream scoop's worth of oyster butter — to be applied to what, exactly ($19)?
ROOM Unlike many design-oriented hotels, there is nothing minimalist about the Viceroy; our 588-square-foot, sea-foam-green junior "suite" (if there was a separate bedroom, we missed it) felt almost crowded with trendy touches, from Ikat pillows to Asian lamps.
After the Olympics, the roads are almost crowded with people running.
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Though the broadcasters can choose to archive videos later on, the live nature of the streams makes for an almost crowd-sourced creative process.
Its immediate environs are almost as crowded.
And it has the time, because, again, it's almost never crowded (until it pours; then everything is crowded).
Buses and trains are almost always crowded in Cuba, which lacks adequate public transport.
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