crumb
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My assessment of the results is that the system provides only a crumb in welfare-type benefits.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
We ate thick slices with cold salted butter — not so much smeared across the crumb as laid on in pale slabs, because patience has never been a prerequisite for breakfast.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
That crumb of optimism was swept away when Vini capitalised on a second outbreak of world-class dithering in front of their own goal.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The natural leavening gives them a lighter, crispier crust and an airy, mildly tangy crumb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Mrs. Howard notices the way I pick up every little crumb, and she says, “I’ve got enough chicken salad left for another half a sandwich, Marty. Would you like it?”
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Bake: Pour into the pan and bake 50 to 60 minutes, until golden and a tester comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 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
Who does Clarke play up front - and is there any prospect that whoever it is might have more than crumbs to feed on?
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
She comes back with a bag filled with big yellow crumbs.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
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
A brush is not desirable for "crumbing" the table.
From School and Home Cooking by Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer
