crust
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The crust is crisp, the pizza cooks more evenly, and I enjoy eating it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
Cake crumbles, graham-cracker crust toppings and star-spangled sprinkles are a whole other challenge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Their simulations showed that these powerful collisions fractured the planet's crust, creating porous underground pathways that allowed water to circulate through the upper layers of the crust.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
Your pie is ready once the top crust is golden brown.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
I move the crust out of its line of sight, only for it to give another excited “Woo!”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Crusted scabies, previously known as Norwegian scabies, causes a "scaly rash and thickened crusts of skin", external containing thousands of mites, and can be due to reduced immunity, although that is not always the case.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Still, executives expressed optimism during the earnings call about things like Totino’s pizza crusts and seasoned pizza rolls, as well as Asian- and Mexican-inspired snacks.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
On Earth, silicate-rich crusts form through long-term processes involving tectonic activity and often require water.
From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026
Each Friday, friends drove to Munger’s home for a potluck lunch, carrying chicken sandwiches with butter on soft white bread, the crusts sometimes removed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
He unzipped it, producing an orange blanket, a pint of orange juice, and some sandwiches wrapped in plastic wrap with the crusts cut off.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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People with a weakened immune system can sometimes get a rare and very contagious type of scabies called crusted scabies.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Anything that’s old, spoiled, crusted over, or vaguely suspect can go — no second-guessing required.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
Constable’s famously crusted, white-flecked surfaces, as seen in this painting’s coarsely textured beams and choppy canal water, and in its windswept, cloud-filled skies, became touchstones in his work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
They were dehydrated and short of breath, some with eyes crusted shut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
His eyes were red and swole up and crusted too, but there waren’t no doubt what caused this on him.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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"Swollen face, a fever, lameness, drooling and crusting of the nostrils - if you do come across any of those clinical signs ring the department immediately and we will investigate."
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
Two days later the reaction arrived: redness, itching, oozing, crusting and small, fluid-filled blisters up and down his legs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2025
It sticks with us because of how vividly it captured the hysterical unreality of living in a turbulent age, and how it picked at the scabs crusting over the face of the American dream.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024
In “Downton” Fellowes wrote all the best set-ups and punchlines for Violet, inspired by Smith’s near-flawless track record with crusting each phrase with the perfect sear.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
Money has trickled through this room for years and years, as if through an underground cavern, crusting and hardening like stalactites into these forms.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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