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crate

[krayt] / kreɪt /
NOUN
wooden container
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A wrinkled Northern elephant seal named Violet slid out of a crate and onto San Pedro’s Cabrillo Beach on a muggy morning in late August.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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

It has taken almost two years to plan, including building a special temperature-controlled crate for him, and co-ordinating complex paperwork across two countries.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

In one case a baby Komodo dragon was hidden in plain sight, inside a crate of ordinary monitor lizards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

He squatted in front of the apple crate the dealer had set up as a makeshift table and flipped down another nickel.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Standing among crates of vegetables at the warehouse, Oscar Ochoa, 65, fumed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Bu and Tyapa had to be cut out of their rusting steel cages, sedated and placed in secure transport crates for the journey back to Tiger House, where they received veterinary treatment and underwent quarantine.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

I had one where we put crates floor to ceiling and had people DJ with my records, and I had a really good time seeing how other people used them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

When the shipping company finally wheels away the crates, Drolma affords herself a smile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

More precious foodstores—cases of nuts, boxes of sugar, crates of barley, flour, and jam—were sledged back to the new camp, dubbed Ocean Camp by the men.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

Metal mesh doors can be added so you can close them when your pet needs to be crated.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

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

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023

Vendors crated their riches July 10 and put them on the truck destined for their next show at Pasadena Convention Center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2022

He looked at which paintings were being crated and realized each had an identification label with a red dot.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

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

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

Dwelling on Luger’s intentions with the piece, I was reminded of something I heard him mention while delivering a large ceramic bison skull for crating.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 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

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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