creaming

present participle of cream
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as in destroying
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of the head-on collision creamed the brand-new car in an instant

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Recent Examples of creaming That can result in dry pockets of flour in the finished baked good and, in the case of creaming butter and sugar, flat or greasy cakes or cookies. The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026 And butter cakes, on the other hand, start with creaming the fat and sugar together. Emily Elias, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 May 2026 Let the butter come to room temperature, and start creaming it in a mixer. Cody Godwin, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026 Follow this recipe for the perfect cake, including creaming the butter and sugar. Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 10 Feb. 2026 Tips for Making Cherry Cookies Decker’s recipe doesn’t call for softened butter, but allowing the butter to soften before beating it with the sugar (a process known as creaming) will lead to a lighter, fluffier texture. Heather Riske, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2026 During an early-pandemic baking rut, Rucker, who owns Los Angeles’s Fat + Flour bakeries, was inspired to streamline her process, and skip the usual step of creaming butter and sugar together. Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2025
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Verb
  • That second blaze burned charred 23,500 acres in that community, Malibu and elsewhere, killing 12 people and destroying or damaging more than 7,500 homes and businesses.
    Sierra Van Der Brug, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2026
  • These kinds of old negatives are often stored inside cans and are so fragile they can’t be unrolled without destroying them, Seales says.
    Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 26 June 2026
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  • Ospreay struck Strickland, who responded by whipping a chain at him.
    Rob Wolkenbrod, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Vargas is accused of repeatedly whipping the cab’s hood with a belt, denting it, cops said.
    Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • The company was saving a few bucks but ruining its product.
    Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 25 June 2026
  • Adidas’s everyday sneakers can handle 20,000 steps without ruining an outfit, perfectly balancing cool with comfy.
    Kaelin Dodge, InStyle, 22 June 2026
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  • The strategies aim to do away with piecemeal approaches to overcoming the unique challenges that islands and coastal communities face, offering a comprehensive approach, said Raffaele Fitto, European Commission executive vice president for cohesion and reforms.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 June 2026
  • How did overcoming addiction play a role in this album?
    Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • But everyday people expressed their political outrage time and again, throwing rocks at and demolishing the houses of government officials, torching the king’s ships and forts and, eventually, marching to battle.
    Robert Parkinson, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
  • During that 25-day closure, PennDOT crews will be demolishing the existing Commercial Street Bridge and sliding in the new bridge, which has been constructed alongside the Parkway East outside of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel.
    Mike Darnay, CBS News, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • The structure suddenly collapsed, burying the people within.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026
  • Since then, the city has touted its success in burying most of its wires while keeping rates competitive with other utilities.
    John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2026
Verb
  • As many little heartbeats as possible, just running around, wrecking stuff in the house.
    Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
  • What is in tandem here is the exuberantly generative possibility of life itself (SCOBY, water) alongside the very synthetic polymers that are literally wrecking life on an individual and systemic level.
    Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026
Verb
  • And while the titular ambulance chaser naturally holds court for six seasons (beating Breaking Bad by one), equally excellent turns by Jonathan Banks and Rhea Seehorn ensure this multi-award-winning series works as both the perfect prequel and a bingeable standalone drama.
    Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 22 June 2026
  • White won by a 2-point margin, beating Shaikh by just under 400 votes.
    Sophia Eppley, AJC.com, 22 June 2026

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“Creaming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creaming. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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