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crest

[krest] / krɛst /


NOUN
emblem, symbol
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Kartal was riding the crest of a wave in the early part of the season, having broken into the world's top 50, reached two WTA quarter-finals and recorded notable wins over top-class opponents.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

A dress made of glass bubbles, foam on a crest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

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

A fine crest of reddish-brown fur ran along its back from its head to the tip of its tail.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

A tsunami is a series of waves, with times between crests ranging from five minutes to an hour, that can persist for many hours, according to the agency.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Ranchers like Kemp who support the laws say it is a birthright to brand cattle with their family crests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

“Dow crests 30,000 points on vaccine hopes, Biden transition,” the Sioux City Journal of Iowa wrote on Nov. 25, 2020, in its page D1 article.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025

“Several wave crests are likely, with the second and third waves likely to be higher than the first.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2025

When the source emits the next wave crest it will be nearer to us, so the distance between wave crests will be smaller than when the star was stationary.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

Caitlin's favourite birds include crested tits, which in the UK are found in native pine forests in parts of the Highlands, Moray and Aberdeenshire, external.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

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

The rate of inflation crested above 4% in May to a three-year high, briefly outrunning the typical increase in workers’ wages.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

Laboratory testing confirmed the disease had infected a greater crested tern in the town of Robe, South Australia.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

She runs her fingers over the jewelry, tracing her fingertip across the tiny places where needles poke out, and the hidden chambers tucked inside the crested jewels.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

In January, worries were cresting that AI was going to quickly disrupt big software companies like Salesforce and ServiceNow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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

Given the cresting age wave, the number is expected to roughly double in the next 35 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025

“And if ye two stay on past this first cresting of the orchards, there’ll be a-schooling for ye to do.”

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness


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