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as in to crumple
to create (as by crushing) an irregular mass of creases in
scrunched up the shirt and tossed it in the laundry
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Recent Examples of scrunch
Editor tip: For extra volume, scrunch the balm into damp curls and use a diffuser to lock in the bounce without weighing your hair down.
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Erin Parker, Allure, 16 Oct. 2024
To make the soap last longer, scrunch the sponge a few times to help spread out the soap.
—Katelyn Squiers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Oct. 2024
To achieve the look, people paint their lips in a bright color like neon green then scrunch up their lips and apply a black shade atop, which produces a crackling effect when the lips return to their resting point.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Sep. 2024
Then while your hair is wet, tuck it behind your ears, lightly scrunch, and air-dry.
—Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 12 Sep. 2024
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Erin Parker, Allure, 16 Oct. 2024
To make the soap last longer, scrunch the sponge a few times to help spread out the soap.
—Katelyn Squiers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Oct. 2024
To achieve the look, people paint their lips in a bright color like neon green then scrunch up their lips and apply a black shade atop, which produces a crackling effect when the lips return to their resting point.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Sep. 2024
Then while your hair is wet, tuck it behind your ears, lightly scrunch, and air-dry.
—Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 12 Sep. 2024
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Seconds later, the truck races back into view, barreling over Sloan, still crumpled on the ground, and fatally mowing down Carter, who had been standing on the sidewalk.Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024
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Videos circulating on social media and verified by NBC News, showed several men watching the strike on Lebanon's capital from a distance, standing by their cars as the building crumples.Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
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That will provide standing space for children, though, and will provide adults a little more headroom for crouching, whether to grab something out of the alcove, get changed, or otherwise stand on two feet inside.New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2024
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Photos recently went viral of students crouching beneath their desks during a police operation on a nearby boulevard, where fleeing suspects tossed spikes onto the streets to puncture the tires of National Guard vehicles chasing them.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
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But the legendary key party scene only scrapes the surface, and the film's blue-gray moodiness is downright enveloping, not to mention its brutally honest depiction of family ties.Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
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There are 283 Burger King locations in Ohio, according to web scraping site xMap.Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
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Mistake: Leaving Clothes Vulnerable Don’t take the decision of whether to fold or hang clothes lightly.Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024
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Behind her, another woman prized apart the seal on a ziplock bag, and nearby a young man swooped his hands forward as his robotic arms folded a child’s shirt.James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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This muscular portion of the stomach helps the bird grind up and digest food, and it’s actually designed to hold some stones and grit to help the chicken or turkey digest food.Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2024
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Away from the impossibly glamorous Left Bank headquarters of YSL, the Hadid sisters have been deploying their softly sloping jackets to bring both nonchalance and grit to downtime looks (and Rosalía’s birthday party).Alice Newbold, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2024
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Sign up But a 97-inch television is only scratching the surface of how big these devices can get; TCL has introduced a 115-inch television, while Samsung sells one that measures 146 inches — more than 12 feet across diagonally.Justin Klawans, The Week US, theweek, 20 Nov. 2024
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This is especially the case if your straw is plastic because, as Wu notes about plastic water bottles, they are most easily scratched and, therefore, more likely to harbor bacteria.Kayla Blanton, Outside Online, 17 Nov. 2024
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“Scrunch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrunch. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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