crunch

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Long Beach Opera had a hugely successful season last year promoting Pauline Oliveros, but now faces a budget crunch.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

And finally, the finish: herbs, crunch, heat, a little fat, layered generously over the top.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Experts have said larger airlines will generally have more options to deal with the impact of the energy crunch.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Micron and other memory-chip makers have benefited in recent months from being able to raise prices as the memory market undergoes a massive AI-driven supply crunch.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

They ate for a few minutes without talking, the only sounds the crunch of biting into bread and the scraping noise of forks against plates as they wound bites of spaghetti.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold