crumbly
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During the first 500,000 years, the amount of crumbly material dropped before rising again over the following million years.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
When Elizabeth writes of stepping into her gleaming kitchen to “test the crumbly brown goodness of the toasted veal cutlets à la Connecticut,” she is not so much lying as world-building.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
An oil driller tapped into the wet, crumbly ore at Florence in the 1970s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
"It was a bit damp and there was all this crumbly plaster and stuff in there - then my hand stumbled on this solid object and I pulled out this glass bottle."
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025
There was nothing official about it, just a wall of crumbly earth surrounding a pit.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
It will be crumblier when you make it without gluten, but the heartiness makes up for that.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023
The resulting cake is crumblier — because duh, it doesn't have the fat! — but it's good.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2022
This fall, we set out to publish the most delicious apple-cranberry crisp recipe of all time — one that was bursting with juicy fruit, lightly spiced, with the butteriest, crumbliest topping.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2022
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