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Recent Examples of crates
Photos shared by the DCSO show the poodles with matted, tangled hair due to a lack of grooming, with some living in crates full of feces.
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Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
Travel home separately in crates to avoid territorial tension.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
On a recent morning, sweaty workers unloaded cargo boats by hand, carrying crates of beer, sacks of rice, and bags of flour on their shoulders 100 yards up the muddy riverbank to trucks waiting on the wharf.
—John Otis, NPR, 7 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
The film’s opening scenes are pleasingly attentive to the arduous labor and process of Jack’s daily work routine, as worn blue hands dredge crates of mussels from palpably freezing seawater.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
Travel home separately in crates to avoid territorial tension.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
On a recent morning, sweaty workers unloaded cargo boats by hand, carrying crates of beer, sacks of rice, and bags of flour on their shoulders 100 yards up the muddy riverbank to trucks waiting on the wharf.
—John Otis, NPR, 7 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
The film’s opening scenes are pleasingly attentive to the arduous labor and process of Jack’s daily work routine, as worn blue hands dredge crates of mussels from palpably freezing seawater.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crates
wrecks
Noun
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The wrecks are time machines, and getting inside one is the payoff for what, in some cases, may have been decades of research and painstaking searches using sonar to methodically probe thousands of miles of open water.—
Frank Witsil,
Freep.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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The wrecks were two of four fatal crashes that happened last week on East Bay highways.—
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Crates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crates. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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