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Recent Examples of crates
Smaller crates and bins can be housed below the bench to one side, while smaller handheld tools can rest ready and waiting on the countertop.
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Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2025
Most pet owners can relate to the consistency and discipline required to encourage more-stubborn dogs, such as dachshunds, to make a habit of sleeping in their crates.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
It can also be spread indirectly through manure, equipment, vehicles, egg flats, crates, clothing and shoes, water and, potentially, feed.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 17 Oct. 2025
The volunteers stacked crates in the cabin.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
Products range from metallic bandanas and harnesses to collapsible travel crates.
—Jessica Moore, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
California and Massachusetts are among the states that go further, banning the in-state sale of animal products that rely on the use of battery cages, gestation crates and veal crates.
—Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025
The whole thing was 0nce an old British hunting outpost, built for grand hunting parties with elephants, silverware, and crates of champagne carried through thick jungle by unnamed brown men.
—Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
Dahlia tubers can even be kept in open crates nestled between layers of compost.
—Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2025
Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2025
Most pet owners can relate to the consistency and discipline required to encourage more-stubborn dogs, such as dachshunds, to make a habit of sleeping in their crates.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
It can also be spread indirectly through manure, equipment, vehicles, egg flats, crates, clothing and shoes, water and, potentially, feed.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 17 Oct. 2025
The volunteers stacked crates in the cabin.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
Products range from metallic bandanas and harnesses to collapsible travel crates.
—Jessica Moore, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
California and Massachusetts are among the states that go further, banning the in-state sale of animal products that rely on the use of battery cages, gestation crates and veal crates.
—Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025
The whole thing was 0nce an old British hunting outpost, built for grand hunting parties with elephants, silverware, and crates of champagne carried through thick jungle by unnamed brown men.
—Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
Dahlia tubers can even be kept in open crates nestled between layers of compost.
—Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crates
wrecks
Noun
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Bacon takes his time getting to the fateful voyage; there are myriad sidebars of varying interest on topics such as Great Lakes shipping and the rise of taconite, two lake wrecks that foreshadowed the Fitz, even the sailors’ favorite watering holes.—
Kevin Duchschere,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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Bankruptcies, drunk driving charges, delinquent child support, foreclosures, nickel-and-dime car wrecks, suspicious slip-and-falls, dubious claims of disabilities — the stock-in- trade of a run-of-the-mill street lawyer whose law school dreams of riches had faded so dim they were almost gone.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Crates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crates. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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