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Recent Examples of crates
At the time of their release, the cougars both bolted to freedom after rescuers opened the crates’ doors, photos from the nonprofit show.
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Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2025
When the Plainfield Police Department responded to an animal cruelty call in April 2023, officers found two emaciated dogs in barren crates.
—Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 18 Sep. 2025
Bob Dylan is really digging in the crates.
—Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 17 Sep. 2025
The crates had numbers stencilled on them and were piled to the ceiling.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2025
When the Plainfield Police Department responded to an animal cruelty call in April 2023, officers found two emaciated dogs in barren crates.
—Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 18 Sep. 2025
Bob Dylan is really digging in the crates.
—Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 17 Sep. 2025
The crates had numbers stencilled on them and were piled to the ceiling.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crates
wrecks
Noun
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The only movement is that of goats who nibble the long grass that grows around the Cold War aircraft wrecks that litter this forlorn spot on Grenada’s east coast.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
19 Sep. 2025
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Researchers know about the wrecks because reporting any commercial ship that sails on the lakes is required; from the early 19th century to the 20th century, about 40,000 ships sailed the Great Lakes, Baillod said.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Crates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crates. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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