crunch
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The goal is to find the perfect viscosity of chocolate on Magnum bars, for the perfect crunch.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Ultimately, it’s a microcosm of a larger battle playing out across Southern California as cities ask existential questions in an effort to solve the housing crunch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
But, he argues, it will create a cascade effect: People who move in will vacate other apartment buildings, easing the city’s supply crunch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The crunch has been nicknamed "RAMaggedon" after the components called RAM, or "random-access memory".
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
The halwa pieces are the perfect addition of chewy crunch.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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We performed classic moves: squats, crunches, high and low planks and bird dogs, among them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Mark Barrocas, CEO of SharkNinja, invited two dozen students to a two-day AI hackathon in April to build tools including one that crunches market-trend data to help identify new potential product lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
In some instances, rapid growth was fueled by supply crunches and migration trends.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
Deulofeu squeezes each hand into a fist and crunches his knuckles together to replicate his right knee.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026
He moves to climb down and check, but something crunches beneath him.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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The Athletic crunched the numbers and determined that no team in baseball has faced as dramatic an increase in fastball percentage, with the Dodgers seeing that frequency climb steadily since May.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Julian Emanuel, chief equity and quantitative strategist at Evercore, has crunched the numbers.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Just for fun, BBC Sport and Opta have crunched all the numbers to find out.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
When people account for their hours, she observes, they “realize that life isn’t as frenzied or crunched as they may have been imagining.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Leaves crunched behind him off to one side of the trail.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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But after four memorable shootouts in the last 32 and last 16, we thought it was worth crunching the numbers once again.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
His campaign didn’t survive, but those problems—tens of thousands of people without housing, costs crunching millions of people with housing, and lagging crisis response—are real.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
Navigating around the crater, Al-Ahmad trudged into the blown-out remains of the hall, his feet crunching on an underbrush of glass, wood splinters and insulation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
Meanwhile, at ESPN, I was assigned to a behind-the-scenes post crunching stats for college-football coverage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
“Mmmm,” Connor hums happily, crunching a piece of orange chicken.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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