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
  • The fire ripped through hillside neighborhoods, destroying mansions with spectacular ocean views.
    ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • At that tipping point, the only solution is for oil prices to surge, destroying enough demand for oil that the market can return to equilibrium.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
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  • Battered cars with numbers sprayed on their sides are whipping around the dirt track of the Lebanon Valley Speedway, loose fenders flopping like overgrown bangs in the swirling dust.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Iguanas usually go viral for other reasons Iguanas are usually quick-moving and run away from their would-be captors with their long tails whipping behind them.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 24 July 2026
Verb
  • But therein lies the problem with ruining baseball and predicting the World Series in August.
    Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Tarik Skubal did not go into last week expecting to be the latest avatar for the Los Angeles Dodgers ruining baseball.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
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  • The release came as Ariana dropped her eighth studio album Petal, which explores themes of overcoming negativity and personal growth, on Friday, July 31.
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Instead of overcoming their fatal flaw and defeating their shadow-self, the titular Eternals are reckoning with their relationship to God and the grand arc of human history.
    EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026
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  • Despite being identified decades ago, the exact trigger of the joint-demolishing condition is still unclear.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026
  • At least one person was arrested for trespassing in connection with an earlier protest to stop contractors from demolishing the other trees.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • Still, the company says that isn't stopping them from burying miles of line across the state.
    Michael Abeyta, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Some say that this is partly because both miners and coal companies deliberately hid these figures, secretly burying their dead in the mountains, so as not to show weakness to the enemy.
    Elijah TanAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
Verb
  • Come for the timeliness, stay for Cap wrecking a bunch of guys in an elevator.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Long-distance backpacking is having a moment, and readers planning a first thru-hike want to know how to prepare without wrecking their body, their gear budget or their trip.
    Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2026
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  • The family is also adamant that they were told by the hospital that by the time Lopez-Cornejo arrived there on Saturday, his heart was no longer beating.
    Armando Garcia, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The Giants then pulled off one more buzzer-beating trade by flipping reliever Erik Miller for infielder and former first-rounder Marcelo Mayer, their fifth and final trade of the day.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2026

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