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Its open crumb absorbs just enough sauce to become more flavorful as it sits, while the soft crust remains easy to eat on a towel without showering your lap in shards.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

The fact she managed to show fight and take the second set into a tie-break was a clear crumb of comfort.

From BBC ● May 24, 2026

The natural leavening gives them a lighter, crispier crust and an airy, mildly tangy crumb.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

It adds gentle richness and, crucially, a plush but defined crumb — one that feels almost cushioned, yet precise.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2026

Not even a crumb of crust left in that skull.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

I can only imagine that at this point, restaurant waitstaffs across the world have picked up crumbs and slices of chatter about Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s 2,700-year-old blockbuster.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

One consequence of this winner-take-all market is that the corporations not at the top of the profit ladder are forced to fight over little more than the crumbs.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

Certainly, I felt a bit like Odysseus as I crept — drained, disoriented and trailing popcorn crumbs like Ithican sand — out into the sun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

There is an absence of creative and dynamic central midfielders, a shortage of wingers with real pace and a serious problem in making chances for strikers who are forced to live off crumbs.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

She brushed crumbs off the table and tossed them into the sink.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

But their fried chicken sandwich — made with crumbed chicken schnitzel, tarragon butter, lettuce and housemade pickle mayo on a steamed potato bun — is their bestseller.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2025

When dining out, choose plant-based options that are sautéed, grilled, baked, steamed, boiled or poached – instead of those that are crumbed or battered before deep frying.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024

As FTX has crumbed, Mr. Bankman-Fried has been “working constructively with regulators, bankruptcy officials and the company to try to do what’s best for consumers,” he said on Sunday.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2022

In my Tuscan family, it is only ever prepared one way, as cotolette di agnello fritte: crumbed, deep fried chops squirted with a lemon wedge.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2018

We three were still there around the crumbed table, dizzy with what she’d heard from Upstairs.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

Al-Sadr has also been a harsh critic of widespread corruption in the oil-rich country torn by decades of violence, with a crumbing infrastructure, an impoverished majority and lack of basic services.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 12, 2022

Tucked into a hilltop, Pignola is pure Italian charm: crumbing stone buildings and narrow, unnavigable streets.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2018

For four decades, Deshpande has ushered more than 50,000 students into this cramped, derelict building of corrugated metal and crumbing cement.

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2014

When we got close, Lt Adekunle deployed three men to search the blackened and crumbing building.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2013

Why is a brush not desirable for crumbing the table?

From School and Home Cooking by Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer