crates

plural of crate
as in wrecks
a dilapidated old automobile he keeps sinking money into that old crate

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Recent Examples of crates 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
  • 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
  • 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 10 Sep. 2025.

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