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Recent Examples of crumb By halfway through the 2025 ceremony, the internet was pretty unanimous in agreeing that Glaser ate and left no crumbs. Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2025 The French élite once savored its crisp yet chewy crust and its tender, subtly sweet crumb. Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025 Leaving just enough crumbs to keep someone interested without committing? Dominique Fluker, Essence, 3 Jan. 2025 For those who pass the exam, the relative dearth of government jobs can make new-hiring calls look like a crumb thrown into a lake full of starving fish. Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for crumb 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crumb
Noun
  • Hundreds of commenters who had never met the couple thanked her for the shred of good news.
    Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The record’s new-wave ditties are an amalgamation of strange but immediately identifiable components, chimeras of ’60s pop à la Lesley Gore and the frenzied shred of a skateboarding compilation.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The floor was covered in paint specks, in the corner was a pile of old paint tubes and smocks.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Spiffy variations include spinach, mushrooms or speck.
    Ann Abel, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In terms of the film’s relevance, the narrative sets up a symbolic situation that offers a glimmer of hope.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The Blackhawks saw a glimmer of that in Connor Bedard’s rookie season.
    Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Others less so: Tiny flecks of indium make the screen sensitive to the touch of a finger.
    Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • And in the very center of the panel, in flat, dark country, in literal no man’s land, is a small, broken vertical line consisting of flecks of white paint.
    Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • My job was to go over there and not be a jerk and try to advance the stand-up ball a couple of yards for the next guy that comes over there.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Drugs and being a selfish jerk threaten everything, of course, and seeing a chimp go through the out-of-control partying instead of a normal dude is a bit different.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In fact, what's easier than a beautiful tube pan cake with a simple glaze and a sprinkling of pecans?
    Anna Theoktisto, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2024
  • For example, municipal and fire prevention agencies must give property owners advance — and continual — warnings to clear dead vegetation and to wet dry brush within 10 feet of the house with periodic, prolonged sprinklings.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • At some point the classical simulation will just fail because bouncing balls will never be able to replicate the peculiar quantum mechanical laws obeyed by sub-atomic particles.
    Vineer Bhansali, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Both are abrasive particles with sharp edges that can irritate eyes, respiratory systems and skin.
    John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Responding officers found the dog, and advised the owner to take the dog in.
    cleveland, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Police brought in hundreds of law enforcement personnel with dogs, armored carriers, horses and helicopters that circled overhead.
    Maryclaire Dale, Marc Levy and Michael Rubinkam, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023

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“Crumb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crumb. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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