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Emily St. John Mandel touched down in Los Angeles just hours before she arrived at Botanica in Silver Lake, shirt crisp, eyes bright, not a hint of jet lag in sight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The scene resembles the Ukrainian flag: yellow fields of corn, sunflowers and wheat, a crisp blue September sky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Of course the playwright has prepared the way, but the wayward emotions emanating from these inwardly glowing performances are refreshing in work that has the crisp, circumscribed elegance of a mathematical proof.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

"Today I see a boom in Ukrainian wineries," he said, noting that from full-bodied reds in the south to the crisp whites of the west, "our terroirs and climate are incredibly diverse".

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

They were too crisp, too fresh, too pure and white to be anything but from the same rosebush as the ones I’d given Mamá.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

The Dodgers went up against an even crisper version of Sale than usual.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Sucking out excess humidity makes the air feel crisper and cooler without toggling the thermostat.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

Or, I overstock ingredients, failing to take inventory of what I already have and letting them rot in the hidden corners of the vegetable crisper.

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

She’s wearing oversize sunglasses, a crisp collared shirt, an even crisper pleated navy skirt and leopard-print pumps.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Erin’s passes are harder and crisper after Terrell leaves, which lets me know she’s upset.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

Sitting by the Rhine one evening with friends, I sipped a glass of white purchased from a food truck that was one of the lightest, crispest wines I've ever consumed.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2023

The crispest quote of the modern political era was written in 2018 by a man named Frank Wilhoit.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022

White asparagus brings to mind Dutch still life, as well as pointing to the intractable ambiguity of even the crispest photograph, since it’s so hard not to read these particular examples as French fries.

From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2019

It's traditionally served on or with tostadas, and it is best enjoyed on hot afternoons and at hungover lunches, preferably paired with the largest, crispest lager you can find.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2018

I found the crispest dollar bill and folded it into my letter.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda

The marauding monkeys brazenly snatch ice cream, cakes and crisps from unwitting tourists in addition to gobbling abandoned leftovers from bins or food directly offered to them.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

The firm says new-style packets for 14 of its products, including crisps and prawn crackers, will start to appear in shops in Japan from 25 May.

From BBC ● May 12, 2026

All the kids would play out in the street every day, you could walk into any neighbor’s house and they would feed you or you could get a packet of crisps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

Sauté them together until the pancetta renders and lightly crisps, the onions turning translucent and sweet at the edges.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026

Hortensia paused to cram more crisps into her mouth.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

Sometimes seasoned simply with salt and pepper, sometimes coated in Shake ’n Bake, that sandy, paprika-tinged breadcrumb mix that crisped into something approximating a crust.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026

Each berry came out as a single large, flat flake that crisped when baked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

Leftover pizza gets cut up, crisped on the stove and mixed into scrambled eggs—a remnant from Duggal’s college days that she has christened “pizza eggs.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

Then a “hot dog,” local chistorra, red with spice and crisped, tucked in a brioche bun and loaded Chicago-style, plated in a cardboard bull.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

"And I charge you to bring the prisoner a cup of wine and a nicely crisped capon, before he dies of hunger," Lannister said.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Watching from my couch in Chicago, I could almost smell the crust crisping.

From Salon ● May 27, 2025

Once the cooking area is cleared, Brown pours olive oil into a pan and shows Prado her trick for crisping tortillas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

The cake's surface will look different if it is soaked in syrup, making it moist and sticky, or if it is put in the oven, crisping and darkening the surface.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023

While the squash gets a head start in the oven, you can dry out the chickpeas to encourage crisping.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2022

She made him taller, and massive, too, with crisping hair in curls like petals of wild hyacinth but all red-golden.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer