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crate

[kreyt] / kreɪt /
NOUN
wooden container
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For those who live in studios, a collapsible playpen, crate or area made with baby gates work just as well, Dresser said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Days after a wall of water and debris ripped through Nepal, Shanti Lamichhane sat on a fruit crate in the dirt where her village once stood, staring at what remained of her home.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

A van served ice creams and a pop-up-shop in an oversize metal crate was selling beers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

A plastic crate holds more wood in waiting.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

Frankie retrieved the medical kit from amid the scatter of jars and tincture bottles piled on an overturned apple crate in the corner.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Drolma’s team begins packing the best matsutakes into Styrofoam crates, pinching little creased pockets in the packing paper to cushion each mushroom.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

A police search team spent a week in the Met's property warehouse, going through more than 200 large crates in the hope of finding the missing exhibits.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Two weeks later, after packing most of his belongings into U-Haul shipping crates, we left Parkersburg, W.Va., in Steve’s red Volkswagen Golf with two suitcases, one Treeing Walker Coonhound and one Aussie/Chow mix.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

At the warehouse in Bangkok's Nonthaburi suburb, the sound of people rummaging through products and plastic crates clattering against shopping carts echoes through the building.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

We unload the crates and set the chickens free to peck around this New World.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

Sloth jaws and sabertooth fangs and a truly astonishing amount of ancient vertebrae — all of it will be swaddled, catalogued and crated for the next two years.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2026

Staged in Philadelphia by Eleonora Gravagnola, it is set in a modern-day art gallery, where a traveling exhibit is being crated up for transfer to its next location.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 1, 2025

Cats must be crated because, well, they’re cats.

From Washington Post Mar. 7, 2023

At first, Ms. Sheridan crated Nala and left the apartment for a while each day to prepare the dog for their imminent separation.

From New York Times May 19, 2022

I hurried to the kitchen, where she was crated.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

The workers were responsible for capturing and crating turkeys destined for slaughter, Pennsylvania State Police said Thursday.

From Seattle Times Oct. 6, 2022

DeJoy, 63, built a fortune by turning a small trucking company into a logistics giant that profited by warehousing and crating cargo and mail for delivery.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2020

Liz Whitehurst dabbled in several careers before she ended up here, crating fistfuls of fresh-cut arugula in the early-November chill.

From Washington Post Nov. 23, 2017

Expenses for shows with valuable historical pieces lie in crating, shipping and insurance.

From New York Times Aug. 26, 2016

I drew out a design for an A-frame signboard that the boys and I could build with crating scraps and place in front of the store.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu




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