crush
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Forces regularly launch crackdowns where they seize illegally used devices, and often crush them.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The European Commission joins regulators in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and South Africa that have found the deal would not crush competition in their respective markets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
“Obsession” wags its finger at projecting a fantasy onto your crush.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
The animals use these hard mouthparts to bite, crush, and consume their food.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
“Are you trying to look good for someone? Oh, my god. Do you have a crush or something?”
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
But authorities will also want the event to go smoothly, deeply aware of the risk of crowd crushes, which have marred similar events in the past, with TV broadcasting guidelines on how to stay safe.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
We’re hearing the music even as we jostle through high-school hallways in our mind, revisiting old crushes and humiliations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
“Injection just crushes the older trees,” said Tommy Thayer, a fourth-generation grower.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
"It's not only humiliating and devastating and shattering – it also just crushes your soul," Jane said.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
A whole mess of girls always had crushes on Khalid.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
When crushed, the material closely resembles lunar dust.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
They hired a crew to jackhammer away much of the concrete and replace it with crushed black lava rock from C&M Topsoil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The mini-bubbles of recent years haven’t crushed growth because they haven’t, mostly, been financed with debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
There are also some potential opportunities in the software group, which had been crushed earlier this year due to investors’ fears around artificial intelligence.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Owen’s mom’s brownies were legendary among the kids in town, made with caramel, nuts, and crushed pretzels.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
The Met said it was called after reports of crushing at the entrance.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
“Maybe that’s because we’ve lived through too many promises. Every time we allowed ourselves to hope, reality ended up crushing us.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The 4-foot-6 female stunt double crushing Matt Damon’s ‘Odyssey’ fight scenes.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Four women and two men are in the running to succeed Antonio Guterres as leader of the United Nations, which faces unprecedented global instability, wars and its own crushing budget crisis.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
But there was only one thing that could satisfy Buck Duke and the other leading businessmen of his day—Mellon, Morgan, and Rockefeller: crushing their competition.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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