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Recent Examples of crate
Some French gunner, now long dead, had lifted it from a crate, shoved it into the breech of a cannon and fired it during that horrible year of 1916.
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Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
To get to Armstrong, Fritz and Nava traveled along the Ashe hallways, through the commissary, across the loading dock, down a set of stairs and around crates of goods coming into the site.
—Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Photographs later taken by a Devastating Pyrotechnics employee show crates of fireworks stacked floor-to-ceiling inside, towering over a forklift used to move them.
—Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Perhaps she had been struck over the head and wrapped in fabric and thrown in a crate, to be ransomed.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
To get to Armstrong, Fritz and Nava traveled along the Ashe hallways, through the commissary, across the loading dock, down a set of stairs and around crates of goods coming into the site.
—Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Photographs later taken by a Devastating Pyrotechnics employee show crates of fireworks stacked floor-to-ceiling inside, towering over a forklift used to move them.
—Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Perhaps she had been struck over the head and wrapped in fabric and thrown in a crate, to be ransomed.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crate
Noun
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Once you get hooked on diving Portugal’s islands, consider making Madeira and Porto Santo’s great wreck diving your next venture .—
Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
11 Sep. 2025
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Many wrecks remain on the lake bottom waiting to be discovered.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But keep going, turn a corner, and the museum reveals itself: a field filled with the hulks of old airplanes and a series of hangars that hint at more treasures inside.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
5 Aug. 2025
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Remember: Without the stunning moment when the boat kisses that frozen hulk, this Best Picture winner is just another Romeo and Juliet knockoff.—
EW Staff Published,
EW.com,
3 July 2025
Noun
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Before the snap, Maye identified Miami’s man-to-man coverage and alerted to a man-beater concept.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
16 Sep. 2025
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Some bakers also place the flour and the mixing bowl and beaters in the freezer as well, but that’s not as important as the butter and flour.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Nº Green, a citrusy blend of bergamot, pink lemon, and orange blossom, keeps us the freshest of all six scents in the collection.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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Add the wine, lemon juice and a generous pinch of salt and black pepper.—
Lynda Balslev,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Stan would then state how urgently this jalopy was in need of cleaning, and Sandra might remark dryly how men never change.—
Colm Tóibín,
The New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2025
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Her ride is a jalopy of a propeller plane piloted by Daryl (Wahlberg), who turns out to be a Mob hit man.—
Marco della Cava,
USA TODAY,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Crate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crate. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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