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Tech firms led heavy losses across Asian markets Tuesday as investors brushed off a rebound on Wall Street amid growing fears about the AI investment boom ahead of crunch earnings releases.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

In a paper titled “Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World,” University of Pennsylvania economist Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Northwestern economics researcher Patrick Norrick crunch demographic data to identify trends in population across the globe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Eddy says the current cost-of-living crunch feels like “death by a thousand cuts” to consumers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

While Micron has benefited from the memory supply crunch by being able to raise prices for components, Sankar noted that pricing could start to decline in the third quarter of 2027.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Her hands clutched the half-made basket so tight, I could hear the sweetgrass crunch.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

Peppering the crowd with whips off his hips and crunches down the ground, Buttler brought up his century by pulling spinner Axar Patel over square leg for six.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

In the absence of alternatives, it is better for poor people to have access to loans to bridge short-term cash crunches, such as a medical bill or the months from planting to harvest.

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

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

Gravel crunches under my boots as I head into the abandoned heating plant.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Plaid CFO Seun Sodipo wants her staff to strike up conversations with company leaders about numbers they’ve crunched in the back office—so much so that it’s been a top priority for her rookie year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Shards of glass and porcelain crunched under Vadym's feet as he walked through the remains of his shop.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

Julian Emanuel, chief equity and quantitative strategist at Evercore, has crunched the numbers.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Snow crunched beneath his feet, but the doe made no noise as she passed through the trees, for she was nothing but light.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Analysts are crunching the numbers on Marvell’s recently announced Google deal and how much fresh upside it really offers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

Boots are crunching in the gravel between the paving stones, coming at a trot.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron