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They crunch into every flavor of Wingstop and rack up millions of views; they clean Korean fried chicken drums in one fell bite, without leaving a trace of meat on the bone.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

The paper suggests that the speech, which will be made on Friday at the annual Jackson Hole symposium, could be a crunch moment for one of Donald Trump's key economic appointees.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

And, amid a cash crunch triggered by a federal investigation into insurance firms his companies control, potential bidders for the Dodgers are monitoring the situation closely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The supply crunch for memory and storage components has allowed companies to raise prices and score long-term customer contracts that aim to smooth out the market’s cyclical behavior.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

The Ivanov house came into sight just as the dull thud of horse hooves and the sharp crunch of wooden wheels over the dirt of the road rose behind them.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

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

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

Porciuncula also weaves in workouts on the deck, such as planks, sit-ups and crunches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026

He moves to climb down and check, but something crunches beneath him.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

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

Bethell crunched a breathtaking unbeaten 76 from 46 balls to give the home side a 1-0 lead in the five-match series.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

A lifelong car buff, he visited numerous dealerships and crunched numbers for all sorts of cars, sedans, EVs and hybrids.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Our feet crunched over twigs and fallen leaves until we tumbled into the clearing that led to my house.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed

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

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

Scotland again pushed for immediate retaliation, but their momentum was killed when Stuart McCloskey's crunching tackle on Russell turned the ball over in Ireland's favour.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

I sit on the sofa in the living room, crunching on Lucky Charms while I think about the word birthday.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender