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They patrol the dusty territory in a westward crook of the Irrawaddy river in ragtag columns and outfitted with rocket-propelled grenades, flak jackets, tote bags and flip-flops.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

Dr. Michel Accad placed a stethoscope in the crook of my arm and pumped up the blood-pressure cuff around my right biceps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

By hook or by crook, The Seahorses army made it three times to the national stadium.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

To my knowledge, Carney’s creator is neither crook nor salesman, but Whitehead can lay claim to those other two mantles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

It harbored, in the crook of its inner curve, a particular shell that could be found nowhere else on the beach.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

What do you know, states are finding more crooks now that they must look or lose money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

In the final entry on her blog, posted barely half an hour before she was killed, Caruana Galizia wrote: "There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate".

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Cook said audience research had revealed the public liked him taking on the crooks and charlatans but they didn't actually want to see him getting hit.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

“I mean, they need to be able to do that. But they just, you know, they need to pay more attention to the crooks than people trying to make an honest living.”

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

She crooks her finger, telling me to come outside.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

Back row Ben Earl pumping his fist to celebrate Ireland's crooked line-out throw in a pre-tournament warm-up was a particular source of online mockery.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Obviously such financial freedom was possible—but only if you were a guy who knew how the crooked game was played.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

Under Mitchell, Pecora showed, the nation’s largest bank had become an impeccably groomed racketeering enterprise, dressing up crooked enterprises as gilt-edged to sell their bonds and stocks to unsuspecting buyers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

In 2019, the IRS told Murrin she owed unpaid tax, penalties and interest for income-tax returns the crooked accountant filed from 1993 to 1999.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

Bad days could set even the most wonderful person’s mood crooked.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Short as trees go, it has a hunkered-down look, its branches starting low to the ground and crooking and knotting as they rise.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2021

He was having an almost violently good time, it appeared, kissing women on the cheek, crooking his arm around his friends’ necks.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2019

A trio of elderly gentlemen, seated outside at a cafe, urge us on, crooking thumbs in the uphill direction.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2019

So police officers, crooking a single finger, have ordered scores of drivers to the curb for breaking the law and issued them a fine for $130.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2012

He flipped his notebook shut and, crooking his finger at me, motioned me to follow him to the door.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd