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He even wrote back to the crook: “I told the guy, ‘You just messed with the wrong hombre.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

I hooked my arm through the crook of his, turning back toward the empty streets and our stuffy Airbnb.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

"I think until the end of her days, she was convinced that I must have been a crook," he laughed.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

It was late, and the store was out of disposable bags, so I tucked some of the loot into my dance bag and cradled the rest in the crook of my arm.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026

But Dimarion was only looking for one: in the crook of Reed’s left elbow, a tiny tattooed ship perched at the edge of a spinning maelstrom—a reminder of their last encounter.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

If crooks have access to some of an individual’s personal information, that’s another way to sharpen the hook.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

In the final entry on her blog, posted barely half an hour before she was killed, Caruana Galizia wrote: "There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate".

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

It says this means the number of "crooks" in the community has grown by 1,000 in just three months.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

“I mean, they need to be able to do that. But they just, you know, they need to pay more attention to the crooks than people trying to make an honest living.”

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

That left only one question: Was it run by crooks?

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Obviously such financial freedom was possible—but only if you were a guy who knew how the crooked game was played.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

In the same over, Abdullah Shafique's crooked bat resulted in an edge to Root at first slip.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

But the Dodgers failed to turn a bases-loaded situation into a crooked number when Ohtani grounded into a double play to end the inning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

In 2019, the IRS told Murrin she owed unpaid tax, penalties and interest for income-tax returns the crooked accountant filed from 1993 to 1999.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

At first, it just looks like a mass of scribbles, but then I make out the crooked, wobbly letters that spell Boo.

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

Short as trees go, it has a hunkered-down look, its branches starting low to the ground and crooking and knotting as they rise.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2021

He was having an almost violently good time, it appeared, kissing women on the cheek, crooking his arm around his friends’ necks.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2019

A trio of elderly gentlemen, seated outside at a cafe, urge us on, crooking thumbs in the uphill direction.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2019

So police officers, crooking a single finger, have ordered scores of drivers to the curb for breaking the law and issued them a fine for $130.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2012

I’m crooking my neck, pressed against the tinted window, to get a better view of our house.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman