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
They’re made from a French pâte à choux—the same batter used to make eclairs and cream puffs—which was likely introduced to Italy by French chefs who worked in the Italian royal kitchens.
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Cindy Salvato, Saveur, 19 Mar. 2025
The dessert highlighted cream puffs and tres leches cake.
—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
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Cindy Salvato, Saveur, 19 Mar. 2025
The dessert highlighted cream puffs and tres leches cake.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cream puff
Noun
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Without a wire to handle or restrict you to the nearest power outlet, the cordless vacuum is a breeze to maneuver.—
Isabel Garcia,
People.com,
15 May 2025
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This is a red flag, snapping in the ideological breeze.—
Neal B. Freeman,
National Review,
13 May 2025
Noun
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An 11-mile, one-way loop road runs the entire perimeter of the valley with plenty of turn-offs that lead to hiking trails, historic homesites, picnic areas, viewpoints, and campgrounds.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
18 May 2025
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The site features a picnic area, a children’s play area, and a bar and local produce shop, which are open daily from June to September.—
Regan Stephens,
Travel + Leisure,
17 May 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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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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The cake pop features strawberry cream cake mixed with buttercream, dipped in a chocolatey icing and finished with a summer strawberry design.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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Starbucks released their limited-time menu for summer 2025 and there is one item that is the star of the show—a new cake pop flavor that fuses sweet summer flavor with childhood nostalgia.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
20 May 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
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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
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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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 28 May. 2025.
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