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It wasn’t a confirmation, but you could feel the hype machine creak into action at even the most remote chance of the old Tiger magic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

She heard music everywhere: a spoon banging against a cooking pot, the honking of geese overheard, the creak and slam of a screen door.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026

She’s used to hearing provisional bleachers creak under sunscreen-slathered fans as music buzzes through nearby portable speakers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2025

He said the roof hatch started to come off with "an almighty creak".

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024

When the door shut and she heard his bed creak as he sat on it, Anya went about cooking the fish.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

As French firefighters struggle to contain the worst wildfires in living memory with just 12 aerial water bombers, production of the iconic aircraft creaks along half a world away in a Canadian factory.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

As well as costly, these tribunal claims are becoming increasingly drawn out as the UK's tribunal system creaks.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

I’m not saying we’re actively rooting for McIlroy to blow it, but it’s always spicy when the roller coaster creaks and the leaderboard gets shifty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

The lead of the horror-tinged heart-tugger “Good Boy” is a copper-colored retriever named Indy who pads around an eerie house deep in the New Jersey woods investigating its mysterious creaks, shadows and smells.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

The door creaks open and then clicks shut behind her, but her light stays on, its glare swallowing the shadows I was planning to skirt through.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

It creaked past his shelter, past the collapsed buildings and ravaged orchards towards the west, away from the Yellow Line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

Except for when passengers, after taking turns at rigging, filed below deck to explore the ship’s white-oak skeleton, which flexed and creaked in the current—the ancient sounds of a seafaring world that’s all but lost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

"Derry Girls just creaked the door open ... because there's such trust in the fact that people will watch a story about that place, about those people," she said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

Germany’s economy as a whole has stagnated since late 2019, after its manufacturing base creaked under high energy prices, increased competition, and a slowdown in Chinese demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025

The swinging door between the deli and the kitchen creaked as if something were gently, ever so gently, pressing against it, testing it.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

But the continuing outbreak is in an active war zone where community mistrust persists and the healthcare system is creaking, and responders haven’t had much success.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Reacting to the announcement, a prison officer told the BBC that they were "creaking at the seams" and that "delaying the releases until October could mean we simply run out of space".

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

That has pushed a system, already creaking under years of under-investment and trade sanctions, to the point of collapse.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

NAIROBI, Kenya—The fast-spreading Ebola virus is overwhelming creaking hospitals and clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo, dimming hopes for quick containment of what is already the third-largest outbreak of the killer disease in history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

It was deeper, darker, like creaking timber and crashing waves.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia