crest
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A dress made of glass bubbles, foam on a crest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
We feel like, leave on the crest of the wave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
It’s big, too, nearly 10 miles long, and peaky, with some squat concrete buildings up at the crest of one of the hills, and a single telegraph pole.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
It has the smallest neck and back crest scales yet documented in the genus, as well as a generally small body size.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
The hotel was named after England’s national soccer team, which was nicknamed the Three Lions because of the lions on the crest of King Richard the Lionheart, which they wore on their jerseys.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Regions corresponding to the crests contain more electrons, while the troughs contain fewer.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Neill Hunter owns Scotcrest in Port Glasgow, which makes commemorative plaques, clan crests and other memorabilia.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
Ranchers like Kemp who support the laws say it is a birthright to brand cattle with their family crests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
“Dow crests 30,000 points on vaccine hopes, Biden transition,” the Sioux City Journal of Iowa wrote on Nov. 25, 2020, in its page D1 article.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025
Soon the motion of the green-blue sea, its flickering crests, sent him sailing toward drowsiness.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
It is now spreading across Australia, most recently killing more than 1,000 crested terns and a long-nosed fur seal, the first detection in a mainland mammal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Locals have claimed that rare albino deer, great crested newts and badgers all roamed the field prior to it being built on.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
Software makes up about 13% of that index and an even larger share of loans in private-credit portfolios, the result of a wave of private-equity buyouts that crested a few years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Eventually the rate of inflation crested at a record 13.5% in 1980, capping off nearly a decade of runaway prices.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 24, 2026
Flux and his beast crested the hill, right on top of Otto, who instinctively put his bike in motion, shooting down the path.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
In January, worries were cresting that AI was going to quickly disrupt big software companies like Salesforce and ServiceNow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
A subtle wave of shame rises — small but persistent — cresting as you imagine your child saying, or your partner thinking, “We’re having this again?”
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026
New data-center designs are cresting one gigawatt in power consumption, the entire capacity of a nuclear reactor.
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
Pelicans glided over the cresting waves, while a harbor seal watched the surfers for a bit before diving under the surface and disappearing from sight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
Géricault painted the storm clouds and cresting waves dark to create a menacing mood.
From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
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