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Recent Examples of creak
Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2025
But the door separating Discord users and advertisers will creak open a little more in June.
—Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 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
Metallic Life Review combines the sounds of pots and pans, creaking cemetery gates, metal tape-deck reels, aluminum cans, and many other metals recorded throughout the duo’s history and back to Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt’s childhoods.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2025
But the door separating Discord users and advertisers will creak open a little more in June.
—Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 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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The ability to generate ideas from scratch, to truly go from nothing to something, is a skill.—
Christian Hyatt,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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But then they are just met with crying meows and scratches at the door.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
Verb
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The last thing the Mets needed was another injury to a starting pitcher, so when Griffin Canning came off the mound, grabbing his left ankle in the third inning, the Citi Field crowd collectively groaned.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
27 June 2025
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The all-plastic body doesn’t creak or groan, and the display lid allows surprisingly little flex for a budget laptop.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
5 June 2025
Verb
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After the Frost squeaked into the playoffs for the second straight season, their thoughts naturally turned to the idea of going on and winning the whole thing again.—
Dean Spiros,
Twin Cities,
27 May 2025
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The 1,100-page bill, which squeaked through the House on Thursday by a single vote, will now go to the Senate, where more changes are likely.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
23 May 2025
Noun
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There will be a few fewer bumps and bruises, fewer scrapes with injury, players’ health and energy preserved for the duration of the league’s longer, compact schedule.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
18 June 2025
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Pink scrape marks blossomed above and below his right eye.—
Corinne Purtill,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2025
Verb
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Shildt is terrible for the Padres — the last thing that group of guys needs is someone encouraging their wild mood swings between whining and macho antics.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
21 June 2025
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Schwarzenegger tells environmentalists dismayed by Trump to ‘stop whining’ and get to work Schwarzenegger has a message for environmentalists who despair at the approach of President Trump’s administration.—
Andre Garron,
Hartford Courant,
12 June 2025
Verb
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The dining room crackles with the hopeful, earnest energy of a start-up company, ripe with possibility.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2025
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The live audio suffered from some crackling noise in a technical hiccup likely caused by the rain, but the singer still came out swinging.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 June 2025
Noun
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Of all of Cyrus’s vocal gifts, perhaps the most pronounced is her rare ability to add a rasp to any line without ever sacrificing volume.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
5 June 2025
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The Chicks were really big on my radar, and Faith Hill—I was obsessed with her voice, the rasp in it.—
As Told to Perrie Samotin,
Glamour,
9 June 2025
Verb
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There’s no point moaning without offering some kind of solution.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
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Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief Erik Windsor said fire crews removed a manhole cover in the general area of the storm drain opening, inserted a powerful listening device and heard moaning.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Creak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creak. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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