crest
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A dress made of glass bubbles, foam on a crest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 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
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
On his snowy nightshirt was a small crest, worked in gold thread.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
A tsunami is a series of waves, with times between crests ranging from five minutes to an hour, that can persist for many hours, according to the agency.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
It was only after returning in 2022 with a larger team and uncovering two more crests that the researchers understood they were dealing with a new species.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 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
The liquid gold crests on their jackets glowed, and she wished she could reach out to touch the M symbol.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
They refer to the "much-married" earl as getting out his "crested carving knives".
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
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
Early Saturday, the river crested at nearly 25 feet in central Indiana—surpassing a record set in 1913, according to the National Water Prediction Service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 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
They’d just crested the hill when the source of the horrific smell came clearly into view.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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
The earth seemed to be cresting a gigantic wave, throwing everyone around her like shaken droplets of water.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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