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Recent Examples of creak
Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
The all-plastic body doesn’t creak or groan, and the display lid allows surprisingly little flex for a budget laptop.
—PC Magazine, 5 June 2025
Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2025
The set is a ship’s deck that tilts and creaks ominously while a screen plays eerily textured footage of a roiling ocean.
—Houman Barekat, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
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Noun
For years, Austinites have hungrily lined up around the block on Barton Springs Rd., often well before the doors even creak open, for a taste of Terry Black's brisket, ribs, and all the fixin's.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
The all-plastic body doesn’t creak or groan, and the display lid allows surprisingly little flex for a budget laptop.
—PC Magazine, 5 June 2025
Verb
My assumption is that most rational human beings would happily stay in a warm and cozy office and simply listen to the building creak and groan under the force of the violent gusts.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2025
The set is a ship’s deck that tilts and creaks ominously while a screen plays eerily textured footage of a roiling ocean.
—Houman Barekat, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for creak
Noun
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Instead of developing its own native system from scratch, Renault uses a Google operating system.—
Trinity Francis,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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Writing your own code (from scratch, at least,) has become quaint.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
15 July 2025
Verb
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Behind the door, Red groaned, then gave himself a self-motivating shout.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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Concerns that the Texas power grid, managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), could soon begin to groan under the weight of surging demand, led the Texas Legislature to pass Senate Bill 6 (SB 6) in the 2025 session.—
David Blackmon,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
Verb
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The cords have never needed replacing, the mat hasn’t sagged, and the frame doesn’t squeak—even during more intense workouts.—
Jordan Galloway,
SELF,
15 July 2025
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Taylor faced Serrano for the first time in 2022, and though many observers believed Serrano deserved the decision, especially after badly hurting Taylor midway through, Taylor squeaked out the split decision to become the undisputed lightweight champion.—
Josh Katzowitz,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
Noun
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One person suffered a broken ankle while seven others were transported to a hospital with cuts and scrapes.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
18 July 2025
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One person suffered a broken ankle, seven people were transported to the hospital with cuts and scrapes, and one person declined transport.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
Verb
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Coaches and athletic directors continue to whine about the lack of regulation and the uneven playing field.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
18 July 2025
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Back at the house, the dog whines at the garage door.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
8 July 2025
Verb
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As a Pueblo squad car pulls up alongside Joe, the tension crackles: a squabble about jurisdiction, a command for Joe to respect the mask mandate.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
17 July 2025
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Behind a service truck now, laying out salt that crackles across the windshield.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2025
Noun
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The soulful rasp of his voice bellowed through the open-roof into the Nashville night.—
Bryan West,
The Tennessean,
30 May 2025
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Wallen has abandoned the panting rasp of his mid-twenties, and now performs with force and depth.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
16 May 2025
Verb
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Now-tired 2010 fads that Lorde pioneered, including bittersweet tropical-pop textures and moaning vocal snippets, are everywhere.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
27 June 2025
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After one season, he was forcefully rejected by the community, which moaned to the press (and the local police) that the tranquil pondside inn was becoming a celebrity- and influencer-infested late-night party spot just like his club in the city.—
Brock Colyar,
Curbed,
24 June 2025
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“Creak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creak. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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