crunch
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But crunch talks in South Korea in 2024 fell apart, and a renewed effort in Geneva the following year made no progress either.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Don’t bet on it fixing the diesel crunch too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
“I had been dealing with some pain throughout the year with the Raptors, especially coming down crunch time with the Raptors,” Ingram said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
But data-center development in general has hit roadblocks thanks to local backlash, an electricity crunch and other factors.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
The cornmeal had a gritty crunch; the ham was smooth and salty against the sweet syrup.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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Peppering the crowd with whips off his hips and crunches down the ground, Buttler brought up his century by pulling spinner Axar Patel over square leg for six.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
We performed classic moves: squats, crunches, high and low planks and bird dogs, among them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
In some instances, rapid growth was fueled by supply crunches and migration trends.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
The man crunches his way toward us, through this snow-covered field and past rows upon rows of identical wooden tombstones, then gestures back in the direction he came from.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026
“The skin and tube look much better. You’ll be up and around by this afternoon. No crunches, though.”
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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Shards of glass and porcelain crunched under Vadym's feet as he walked through the remains of his shop.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
"Our whole family was in Boston, I don't think we'd all be able to go back, the credit card had been crunched."
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Commerzbank currency strategists led by Volkmar Baur crunched the numbers on the IPO that’s intended to raise $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
Jazz looked at me, crunched on the ice in her mouth, and smiled, because she knew she had won without even saying anything back.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
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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
Only after crunching the numbers, interviewing experts, and analyzing all of the angles do she and her partners invest.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
XTX Markets, an algorithmic trading firm, is building a $1 billion-plus complex of five AI data centers in Finland to expand its data crunching and model training capabilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Paganini hopped over right away at the smell of the cilantro and gobbled it up, his back molars crunching away happily.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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