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Recent Examples of crates
An Irvine dog trainer who operated Happy K9 Academy was convicted of killing 11 dogs by keeping them in small crates in a hot van and lying to the pets’ owners about the deaths, authorities said.
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Seamus Bozeman
follow, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
Though crates, boxes and moving vans will not be present, the first day of July is like moving day in college football.
—Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Mathew Street was indeed close at hand but over the frontier of Liverpool’s dockland, a narrow cobbled lane between towering Victorian warehouses, blocked by heavy trucks and strewn with empty crates, cabbage stalks, and squashed oranges to the peril of Brian’s beautifully polished brogues.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
Merchants in fine suits rode in carriages or on sedan chairs while enslaved people lugging carts and crates wore dirty, threadbare clothing and could be publicly whipped or burned to death for misbehavior.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 9 June 2026
An American flag hangs at the front of Mohammad Ghafari’s Shater Abbass Bakery & Market along Westwood, where crates of pomegranates, oranges, watermelon and other fruit and vegetables crowd the sidewalk.
—Pat Maio, Daily News, 7 June 2026
They were jostled by men carrying heavy crates, cursed out by a man selling a pair of old boots, and viewed with suspicion by seemingly everyone else.
—Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
In 1885, the Statue of Liberty, disassembled and packed into 214 separate crates, arrived in New York Harbor aboard the French frigate Isère.
—ABC News, 2 June 2026
Eventually, a wharf employee noticed one of the crates was leaking an oily substance.
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
Seamus Bozeman
follow, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
Though crates, boxes and moving vans will not be present, the first day of July is like moving day in college football.
—Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Mathew Street was indeed close at hand but over the frontier of Liverpool’s dockland, a narrow cobbled lane between towering Victorian warehouses, blocked by heavy trucks and strewn with empty crates, cabbage stalks, and squashed oranges to the peril of Brian’s beautifully polished brogues.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
Merchants in fine suits rode in carriages or on sedan chairs while enslaved people lugging carts and crates wore dirty, threadbare clothing and could be publicly whipped or burned to death for misbehavior.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 9 June 2026
An American flag hangs at the front of Mohammad Ghafari’s Shater Abbass Bakery & Market along Westwood, where crates of pomegranates, oranges, watermelon and other fruit and vegetables crowd the sidewalk.
—Pat Maio, Daily News, 7 June 2026
They were jostled by men carrying heavy crates, cursed out by a man selling a pair of old boots, and viewed with suspicion by seemingly everyone else.
—Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
In 1885, the Statue of Liberty, disassembled and packed into 214 separate crates, arrived in New York Harbor aboard the French frigate Isère.
—ABC News, 2 June 2026
Eventually, a wharf employee noticed one of the crates was leaking an oily substance.
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crates
wrecks
Noun
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The most wrecks recorded that year were in June, according to the state transportation department.—
Hali Smith,
Idaho Statesman,
18 June 2026
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The Discovery Channel got involved in early 2026 and recruited Calvin Mires, a maritime archaeologist for Marine Imaging Technologies, who has worked on many World War II wrecks.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
18 June 2026
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“Crates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crates. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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