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Recent Examples of creak
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
Woo walked slowly across the room, using a walker to stabilize his upper body, his steps a symphony of clunks and creaks and whirs.
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IEEE Spectrum,
1 Apr. 2026
Timothy Dale,
The Spruce,
25 Feb. 2026
Or perhaps a constructive metaphor is better—a social order starts to creak into place.
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Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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Noun
The creak of a hinge, the thrum of water running through the pipes.
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Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
Woo walked slowly across the room, using a walker to stabilize his upper body, his steps a symphony of clunks and creaks and whirs.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
1 Apr. 2026
Verb
Similarly, older floors tend to creak and squeak underfoot, and may even have loose staples, nails, or wooden splinters that can put you at risk.
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Timothy Dale,
The Spruce,
25 Feb. 2026
Or perhaps a constructive metaphor is better—a social order starts to creak into place.
—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for creak
Noun
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Yet relief from a good scratch, in evolutionary terms, is positive feedback.
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Unlike Leviticus, Obsession and Backrooms didn’t build their audiences from scratch.
Verb
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Despite the lack of goals, the game was exciting with end-to-end runs and missed chances that left fans of both teams groaning and burying their heads in their hands.
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As though on cue, Wardrobe — my beloved, and giant, closet — shuffles over from the corner of my room, the mahogany wood groaning with the effort.
Verb
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Now with this loss, Scotland will finish third in their group and have to hope that the third-place teams in other groups have a worse goal differential to squeak their way in.
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Scotland has three points from its opening win over Haiti, and even with a 3-0 loss to Brazil could squeak in, depending on the results of the remaining group stage games.
Noun
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Thomas showed photos to CBS News Chicago Investigators of blood left behind from the gash to the back of his head, and scrapes and bruises to his face.
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Minor scrapes and blisters happen too often while traveling, and the ship's medical center is notoriously expensive for the little stuff that a bandage would fix.
Verb
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Jessie whines about the good old days all the time — how fun is that?
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Don’t whine about his Northern California roots or love of the local nine.
Verb
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Among the red seats of the David Geffen Theater, the atmosphere crackles with anticipation and a touch of anxiety.
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The staff was as warm and inviting as the space itself, with a fireplace crackling away next to an all-day self service coffee bar.
Noun
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Like Dijon, svn4vr uses a dexterous, soulful rasp to fight for emotional truth from within songs that occupy shifting senses of space and bear the seams of digital assembly.
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Deep and smoky with impressive control and just a touch of Etta James rasp, Spiro’s is a voice not so much influenced by jazz legends like Winehouse or Nina Simone but rather a direct descendant.
Verb
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Musselwhite punctuated the music with his harmonica trills and moans while his right knee bounced in time with the rhythms.
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And yes, that sound will dissipate and soon will be too faint for my human ears as it is absorbed into space, but Renee Gladman writes that spaces moan.
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“Creak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creak. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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