crush
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And if he did all the things that you wished he did, would you feel as excited about your childhood crush?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
They accuse doomers of being a front for companies seeking to use regulation to crush rivals.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Before, the two forces had been allies, working together to crush rebellions in Darfur, but also pro-democracy movements that sprung up after the ouster of Sudanese dictator Omar Al-Bashir in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The surge in Moderna and other biotech stocks helped crush the momentum trade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Looks like it’s time to wash off my crush.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
If the Jacobian determinant is always a constant number that is not zero, then the function never folds or crushes space around a particular point.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
“LLY crushes expectations,” wrote RBC Capital Markets analyst Trung Huynh, describing the company’s second-quarter performance to investors.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Authorities are 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. 3, 2026
Experimental and fun, it crushes the stars' voices through digital effects that give their declarations of undying love a yearning, other-worldly quality.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
Axel crushes his buttered bread into a butter-bread-ball and eats it like an apple.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
That is an astonishing reversal from Berkshire’s glory days during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s when it crushed the overall market by a wide margin.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
They can also now be crushed within 48 hours.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
"Second, if I did, I would have gotten crushed because I didn't have a why."
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The page also displays a picture of the Aztek van, a seatless ride whose interior was lined with crushed red velvet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
A dryad brought him bread made from walnuts and a bowl of crushed apricots stewed with honey.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
The emergence of industrial crushing in the 1910s transformed the crop.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Meanwhile, as he struggles with a crushing financial problem he did not create, he’s aware that millions are being spent on homelessness without significant progress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
His crushing fatalism makes him an unlikely candidate to select patriotic verse for the festival’s poetry chapbook or to furnish interiors for its house-and-home exhibition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
"The battle for succession has largely remained an in-house rather than a national matter following the weakening of political institutions and the crushing of dissenting voices," said Waluya.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
She kept hold of Ivy’s hand, and Ivy squeezed so tightly, she worried she might be crushing June’s fingers.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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