crunching

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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

Only after crunching the numbers, interviewing experts, and analyzing all of the angles do she and her partners invest.

From Barron's • May 21, 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

Sciola was talking to her, as soothingly as to a child; we could hear him above the crunching footsteps, the drip of water and the sift of wind in the trees overhead.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt