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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

Duffy points out a chair with a sun symbol painted on its crest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

It was chosen because this animal’s femur lacks a crest or raised bony protrusion – known as a trochanter – where part of the tail musculature would attach.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

The most famous corner is Eau Rouge, a high-speed left-right flick into and out of a compression that launches the cars uphill into a left over a crest - technically known as Raidillon.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

A mile away, on the crest of the next hill, a storm had gathered over some old stone ruins—maybe the remains of a Roman temple or a fortress.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

The stream banks were denuded of vegetation and the riffle crests obliterated as the choked stream tried to reach the sea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

Lin's initial results indicate that the Parasaurolophus' crest was used for resonance, similar to the crests of birds we see today.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024

I pictured the snow falling over it, two crests of snow rising on the tops of its wings.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

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

I had twice walked from Stanford’s campus to the Pacific Ocean, a roughly 25-mile journey that crested the Santa Cruz Mountains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 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

Transits in the subsequent weeks crested at 22 in mid-April and are off more than 90% since the war began.

From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026

A bell clanged, and a red-and-tan trolley crested the hill, stopping at the intersection with another clang of the bell.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

But when the hype for Weapons was cresting in August 2025, Cregger was already in Prague prepping his next feature: Resident Evil, an adaptation of the wildly popular videogame franchise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 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

In further clips, that small cloud gets darker and flames can later be seen cresting over the hilltop.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025

Large mirrors appeared on the cavern walls, cresting overhead.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton