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She heard music everywhere: a spoon banging against a cooking pot, the honking of geese overheard, the creak and slam of a screen door.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026

But leading into the pandemic, Germany’s industrial base started to creak as car production slowed down and government investment stalled under former Chancellor Angela Merkel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

How many of us have had the experience of hearing an old house creak in the night and wondering if it was something more?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

The metal deck plates on some boats creak and wobble underfoot.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023

But Lola had the door shut and latched before Max heard the main door to the office creak open.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

As French firefighters struggle to contain the worst wildfires in living memory with just 12 aerial water bombers, production of the iconic aircraft creaks along half a world away in a Canadian factory.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

As well as costly, these tribunal claims are becoming increasingly drawn out as the UK's tribunal system creaks.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Tom has reached an age when he can no longer get around the house without an accompaniment of creaks and groans and thuds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

The lead of the horror-tinged heart-tugger “Good Boy” is a copper-colored retriever named Indy who pads around an eerie house deep in the New Jersey woods investigating its mysterious creaks, shadows and smells.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

As I’m going back into the house, the deck creaks.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

It creaked past his shelter, past the collapsed buildings and ravaged orchards towards the west, away from the Yellow Line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

The tram creaked past deserted factories that once produced mining equipment and porcelain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

"Derry Girls just creaked the door open ... because there's such trust in the fact that people will watch a story about that place, about those people," she said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

Germany’s economy as a whole has stagnated since late 2019, after its manufacturing base creaked under high energy prices, increased competition, and a slowdown in Chinese demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025

The floor rumbled underneath me as the very walls around us shuddered and creaked, sending torrents of rock dust down onto millions of dollars’ worth of equipment.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Despite the change in venue, some things are universal in Nigeria, whose creaking grid is as infamous as Lagos traffic: as the models prepped backstage Friday, the power briefly cut out.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Thirty years since Berger, Smicer, Poborsky and Nedved endured their north London heartbreak, the creaking old stadium has long ago been substituted out and replaced by a Wembley fit for the 21st Century.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

A score by Latham and Shelby Gaines balances discordant, atonal tones with suspense-driven sound design that captures the creaking noises of the forest and the concealed dangers it holds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

That has pushed a system, already creaking under years of under-investment and trade sanctions, to the point of collapse.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

A creaking sound echoed outside the Hall of the Gods.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi