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
Located just steps from Findlay Market in Over-the-Rhine, Tablespoon Cooking Co. has classes available to sign up for online that cater to a variety of dishes, from tacos and margaritas to eclairs and cream puffs.
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Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
For the final course, guests can taste cream puffs, sorbet and other desserts.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 18 June 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
Indulge in Sanders’ iconic treats, including its traditional chocolate sauces, cookies, cakes and, of course, ice cream for those famous cream puffs.
—Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2024
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Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
For the final course, guests can taste cream puffs, sorbet and other desserts.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 18 June 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
Indulge in Sanders’ iconic treats, including its traditional chocolate sauces, cookies, cakes and, of course, ice cream for those famous cream puffs.
—Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cream puff
Noun
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And the pull-on style makes getting ready a breeze.—
Nicol Natale,
People.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The international community is watching closely to see how reliable the two countries’ new leaders can be, but many seem optimistic that there is a positive breeze blowing that can transcend both nations’ grim recent past.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The bakeries are also handy spots to buy baguettes—paired with cheese from a fromagerie or fruit from a local open-air market—for a relaxed park picnic.—
Elissa Garay,
AFAR Media,
3 Sep. 2025
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Just minutes from downtown, Seven Bends State Park offers more than 1,000 acres of wilderness along the Shenandoah River—more than eight miles of hiking trails, boat launches, and picnic areas.—
Tykesha Spivey Burton,
Southern Living,
3 Sep. 2025
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The duck soup recipe at YOUYU involves quite a kitchen concerted effort, many rare and aromatic spices and menu patience.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
18 July 2025
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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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French pastry chef Yann Couvreur, whose patisserie is located a few blocks away in Wynwood, has created a dessert menu of French-Japanese desserts like a mango, coconut and passion fruit cake and black sesame ice cream topped with matcha and served with Liger’s chocolate chip cookie.—
Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
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Instead, it might best be described as a pie that captures the best part of German chocolate cake's coconut-pecan frosting.—
Ann Taylor Pittman,
Southern Living,
9 Sep. 2025
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This free party includes DJs, pop-up bars, kid stuff and more.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
25 Aug. 2025
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Physicist Matthew von Hippel looks not at the birth of the universe but at its destruction, outlining a disastrous world-ending scenario that makes asteroid strikes and Earth-colliding black holes look like kid stuff.—
Jeanna Bryner,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
Noun
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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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But nothings more peaceful than tomorrow to a man going through pain today.—
Becca Longmire,
Peoplemag,
22 Feb. 2024
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“Cream puff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cream%20puff. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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