crunch
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A few tips: I prefer using unsalted over salted butter since it lets me go crazy with the flaky sea salt, which adds a nice crunch to an otherwise soft snack.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Truckers and farmers are facing a supply crunch that is pushing prices higher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Different types of memory chips that store digital information are used in AI systems alongside powerful processors able to crunch data to generate chatbot responses or realistic images.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate loan inched up this week to 6.49%, adding to the affordability crunch many prospective home buyers are feeling.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Her hands clutched the half-made basket so tight, I could hear the sweetgrass crunch.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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
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
From standing bicep curls to seated crunches, my motions were tracked inside a yellow box on screen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026
“And gentlemen, I myself cry no tears for me. No, sir, I don’t. Because it crunches up the features. Detracts from the regularity.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
"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
The Bloomberg analyst crunched the numbers and found that, over the past 33 years, stocks rose during the May-through-October period 25 times.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026
But JPMorgan analyst Rob O’Dwyer crunched the numbers.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 4, 2026
Hard stop: I used to participate on a weekly call with several of my peers from different departments, all of whom, I estimate, were equally busy and crunched for time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
The orange-pebbled road crunched smartly under his hard-soled shoes.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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
But he went over the limit and slid wide on the entry to Tabac, crunching his right rear wheel against the wall and breaking his rear suspension.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 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
It was a happy debut for Toulon wing Drean, who started the match making two crunching tackles and finished it with a try.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
The man seated next to her was eating bitter kola, crunching loudly, and when he turned to make conversation she slowly shifted away until she was pressed against the airplane wall.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
