crunch

The goal is to find the perfect viscosity of chocolate on Magnum bars, for the perfect crunch.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Ultimately, it’s a microcosm of a larger battle playing out across Southern California as cities ask existential questions in an effort to solve the housing crunch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

The crunch has been nicknamed "RAMaggedon" after the components called RAM, or "random-access memory".

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

And I knew the finished thing would require some crunch.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

I hear the creak of the door, the crunch of feet on steps.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Supply crunches have hobbled semiconductor production before, and explosive demand for niche materials due to AI has made many major chip makers dependent on a single company’s output.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

In some instances, rapid growth was fueled by supply crunches and migration trends.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

Deulofeu squeezes each hand into a fist and crunches his knuckles together to replicate his right knee.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

The man crunches his way toward us, through this snow-covered field and past rows upon rows of identical wooden tombstones, then gestures back in the direction he came from.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026

I walk back over to Mama and Charlie, who glares at me and then crunches on a Cheeto.

From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist

The Athletic crunched the numbers and determined that no team in baseball has faced as dramatic an increase in fastball percentage, with the Dodgers seeing that frequency climb steadily since May.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Bethell crunched a breathtaking unbeaten 76 from 46 balls to give the home side a 1-0 lead in the five-match series.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Google’s Gemini chatbot crunched the numbers for the teams, including the players’ professional statistics and the World Cup match schedules, to predict a “new” tournament winner.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

It crunched data from LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor and dozens of other sources.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

Beau snapped them up and crunched them loudly in his mouth.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

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

Meanwhile, at ESPN, I was assigned to a behind-the-scenes post crunching stats for college-football coverage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Ray pulls into a space under the flashing martini sign, the tires crunching over gravel.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko