crunch
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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
It’s impossible to deny that AI helps students working on a time crunch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The crunch has been nicknamed "RAMaggedon" after the components called RAM, or "random-access memory".
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Their crunch interrupts the softness of the turkey, cheese and sauces; their salt seasons the sandwich; and their pucker sharpens the lemon mayo and smoky-sweet romesco.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Which will be our fate: big crunch or heat death?
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
Loans can help borrowers bridge short-term cash crunches, such as a medical bill or the months from planting to harvest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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
Finally, gravel crunches beneath car tires in our driveway.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
Julian Emanuel, chief equity and quantitative strategist at Evercore, has crunched the numbers.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 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
MAG7 stocks are getting crunched, with Apple down 4% and Nvidia losing 3.6%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Just for fun, BBC Sport and Opta have crunched all the numbers to find out.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
His big teeth crunched into calabashes to get at the food inside.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
A crunching tackle at the Holte End against Wigan on his Villa debut endeared him to the support.
From BBC ● Jun. 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
Meadowlark and I are just sitting down on a stack of logs next to the coop to catch our breath when we notice a tall figure crunching toward us across the field.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
