as in to lift
to move from a lower to a higher place or position
craned her head to see the roof
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Recent Examples of crane
All of those spacecraft craning their necks to track a single object on command from Earth amount to nothing short of a sort of cosmic infrastructure, built and deployed by humans throughout their local solar system.
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 Nov. 2025
The contrasting Top Ride mode cranes the camera up from behind your racer to a bird's-eye view of the entire track.
—NPR, 19 Nov. 2025
Or does Lux ask us to crane our necks to appreciate base human longing that presents in ecstatic and horrific manifestations, in the hunger for all sorts of holy and unsavory connections?
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
During the construction of the Brew Hall, the kettles were craned into the site first, and the building was built around them.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 3 Nov. 2025
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 Nov. 2025
The contrasting Top Ride mode cranes the camera up from behind your racer to a bird's-eye view of the entire track.
—NPR, 19 Nov. 2025
Or does Lux ask us to crane our necks to appreciate base human longing that presents in ecstatic and horrific manifestations, in the hunger for all sorts of holy and unsavory connections?
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
During the construction of the Brew Hall, the kettles were craned into the site first, and the building was built around them.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 3 Nov. 2025
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Todd, who was not injured, managed to make her way down the hiking trail and call for help, which resulted in a rescue helicopter from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island lifting Mutchler in effort to transport her to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
22 Jan. 2026
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Not to mention, with just one spritz, my mood is immediately lifted.—
Alyssa Morin,
InStyle,
22 Jan. 2026
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An Israeli flag was seen hoisted above the facility in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where some Israeli politicians arrived on the scene to celebrate the organization’s fate.—
Sam Metz,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2026
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The National Weather Service has already hoisted winter storm watches for much of Oklahoma and parts of northern Texas into Arkansas and northwest Louisiana.—
Chris Dolce,
CNN Money,
20 Jan. 2026
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The club raises money for scholarships from its Scholarship Raffle, set to begin in February.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
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Granick raised concerns about the breadth of information that the FBI could obtain if agents get access to data protected by BitLocker.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Crane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crane. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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