as in breeze
something easily done or dealt with
everyone thinks tonight's game will be a cream puff, and so it hasn't generated a lot of interest
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Recent Examples of cream puff
The dessert highlighted cream puffs and tres leches cake.
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Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
The selection committee tends to take an unflattering view of teams that load up on cream puffs.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2025
Head up here on a Sunday for their tea service, which includes tasty bites like anchovy toast with Calabrian chili and parsley, housemade vanilla cream puffs, mini honey butter scones, and Himalayan black tea from In Pursuit of Tea.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2025
Desserts include a sundae bar with ice cream, an assortment of toppings and a cream puff.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2024
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Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
The selection committee tends to take an unflattering view of teams that load up on cream puffs.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2025
Head up here on a Sunday for their tea service, which includes tasty bites like anchovy toast with Calabrian chili and parsley, housemade vanilla cream puffs, mini honey butter scones, and Himalayan black tea from In Pursuit of Tea.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2025
Desserts include a sundae bar with ice cream, an assortment of toppings and a cream puff.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cream puff
Noun
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And with Alexa voice control and Google TV, navigating your favorite shows is a breeze.—
Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
2 May 2025
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The single temperature knob and reliable igniter are easy to use, and cleanup is a breeze with pre-oiled grates.—
Melanie Fincher,
Southern Living,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Some of the best picnic spots require a hike to get there, but that’s no problem with this picnic backpack.—
Anne Taylor,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Apr. 2025
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That was shattered around 2:30 p.m. IST when assailants emerged from the woods and began riddling the picnic spot with gunfire.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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For Marx, making the transition from actress to wife of a great movie star was duck soup.—
Donald Liebenson,
Washington Post,
21 July 2022
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Rather than give the man his spare change, Raymond bought him a cup of duck soup.—
Dave Birkett,
Detroit Free Press,
12 Aug. 2021
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Gabriel, especially, was the icing on the cake for those who were baffled that Sanders hadn't gone off the board, as some experts didn’t have him on their top five quarterback rankings heading into the draft.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Paton last year said the Broncos were preparing a cake when the coach almost, but not quite, triggered a move back on Day 2 of the draft.—
Nick Kosmider,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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At 21, Jovic, too, arguably remains part of the kid stuff, only at the end of last season having emerged as a rotation presence.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Sep. 2024
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But that was kid stuff compared to the adult heartbreak of her stunning new album, The Tortured Poets Department.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
19 Apr. 2024
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My memoir was built of gaps, juxtaposition, weird little nothings.—
Cheri Lucas Rowlands,
Longreads,
16 Dec. 2024
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The one whose legs turned nothings into somethings, improvising the Lions’ entire defensive game plan into a pile of ash?—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
10 Feb. 2024
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“Cream puff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cream%20puff. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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