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It’s big, too, nearly 10 miles long, and peaky, with some squat concrete buildings up at the crest of one of the hills, and a single telegraph pole.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

It was chosen because this animal’s femur lacks a crest or raised bony protrusion – known as a trochanter – where part of the tail musculature would attach.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

The most famous corner is Eau Rouge, a high-speed left-right flick into and out of a compression that launches the cars uphill into a left over a crest - technically known as Raidillon.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Soccer and the mastermind behind that World Cup — created for the 23 players who will wear the U.S. crest at home this summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

It preened a long iridescent feather, shook its head, raised and lowered its crest in a gesture that was somehow threatening, and turned to gaze at us with a perfectly round, yellow eye.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

They unearthed a skull, fragments of the hind legs and several crests.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

Very different are the bold designs for wrought-iron ornament, drawn full size, for making grilles, chandeliers and decorative crests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

Demand for cheap labor never goes away, but sometimes it crests.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025

Lin's initial results indicate that the Parasaurolophus' crest was used for resonance, similar to the crests of birds we see today.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024

I pictured the snow falling over it, two crests of snow rising on the tops of its wings.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

It is now spreading across Australia, most recently killing more than 1,000 crested terns and a long-nosed fur seal, the first detection in a mainland mammal.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

I had twice walked from Stanford’s campus to the Pacific Ocean, a roughly 25-mile journey that crested the Santa Cruz Mountains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Eventually the rate of inflation crested at a record 13.5% in 1980, capping off nearly a decade of runaway prices.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 24, 2026

He also used symbols like the "pava", the traditional farmer's hat, and the endangered Puerto Rican crested toad.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

The human children crested the hill, a dozen silhouettes backlit by the rippling green light of Progress.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

But when the hype for Weapons was cresting in August 2025, Cregger was already in Prague prepping his next feature: Resident Evil, an adaptation of the wildly popular videogame franchise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

A subtle wave of shame rises — small but persistent — cresting as you imagine your child saying, or your partner thinking, “We’re having this again?”

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026

New data-center designs are cresting one gigawatt in power consumption, the entire capacity of a nuclear reactor.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

In further clips, that small cloud gets darker and flames can later be seen cresting over the hilltop.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025

The earth seemed to be cresting a gigantic wave, throwing everyone around her like shaken droplets of water.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin